一切經音義 99.171

99.171

鯤鵬（上骨魂反下蒲甫反莊子云北溟有魚其名曰鯤化而為鳥其名曰鵬鵬背不知其幾千里也司馬彪注云鯤大魚也說文從魚昆聲集從虫作蜫非也鵬從鳥朋聲）。

The Kun and Peng (鯤鵬) (the first character is pronounced with the fanqie 骨魂 [gǔ + hún = kūn]; the second character is pronounced with the fanqie 蒲甫 [pú + fǔ = bù/péng]: the Zhuangzi says, "In the Northern Darkness there is a fish whose name is the Kun; it transforms into a bird whose name is the Peng; the Peng's back spans who knows how many thousands of li." Sima Biao's commentary says, "The Kun is a giant fish." The Shuowen says it is classified under the radical 魚 with 昆 as its phonetic; the Collected [Edition] writes it with the radical 虫 as 蜫, which is incorrect; 鵬 is classified under the radical 鳥 with 朋 as its phonetic).