一切經音義 98.36

98.36

猱猨（上奴刀反下音袁毛詩傳云猱亦猨屬也郭注山海經云似獼猴而臂長便捷色有黃者黑者黃者鳴其聲哀也說文並從犬柔爰皆聲）。

Monkeys and apes (náoyuán: the first is fanqie 奴 + 刀 [nú + dāo]; the second is pronounced yuán. The Mao Commentary on the Odes states: "The náo is also of the ape kind." Guo's commentary on the Classic of Mountains and Seas states: "It resembles a macaque with long arms, agile and quick; some are yellow and some are black; the yellow ones cry with a plaintive sound." The Shuowen jiezi states: "Both take the radical 犬, with 柔 and 爰 as their respective phonetic components").