一切經音義 2.44

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Tigers and leopards (虎豹: the upper character is hu + gu fan. The Erya says: a han is a white tiger; a shu is a black tiger. The Fangyan says: between Chen and Song it is called lijiao; south of the Yangzi it is called li'er. The Shuowen jiezi says: the tiger is the king of mountain beasts; its paws resemble human feet, hence below it takes human (人); it is pictographic and also phono-semantic. 甝 is han; 儵 is shu; 虍 is hu. The lower character is bao + jiao fan. The Shuowen jiezi says: its appearance resembles a tiger, with round, black patterns, but smaller than a tiger; it takes the beast (豸) signific and bao abbreviative phonetic. 豸 is pronounced zhi).