一切經音義 32.404

32.404

兔猫 (hares and cats; the first character is 土固反; the Kaosheng states that it means foxes and hares; the Shuowen jiezi states that it is the name of a beast; it depicts sitting upright, and the dot behind depicts the shape of its tail; the head of 免 is the same as the head of [奐-大+比], hence it is derived from the abbreviated form of [奐-大+比]; the second character is 夘包反; also written as 貓; Gu Yewang states that a cat resembles a tiger but is smaller, reared by households to catch mice; the Wenzidian shuo states that it takes the 'dog' (犬) radical with 苗 as phonetic).