一切經音義 34.105

English (machine translation) 34.105

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34.105

Great turtle [大鼇]: the second [character is pronounced with the fanqie] wu-gao (五高反). The Shenxian zhuan states: 'There are spirit turtles that bear Mount Penglai on their backs and play in the midst of the vast sea.' Wang [Yi's] commentary on the Chuci states: 'Áo (鼇) is a giant sea turtle.' In the Gujin zhengzi, it is formed from [the semantic component] mǐn (黽, frog/reptile; mǐn has the sound meng) and [the phonetic component] áo (敖).

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一切經音義 — 慧琳, Classical Chinese