一切經音義 41.60

English (machine translation) 41.60

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41.60

Tigers and leopards (虎豹: for the first character, fanqie hū-gǔ. The Shuowen jiezi says: "The king of beasts; composed of the tiger-stripe radical (虍); 虍 is pronounced hū; a tiger's feet resemble human feet, hence below it takes the person radical (人); a pictographic character." For the second character, fanqie bāo-mào. The Shuowen jiezi says: "Resembles a tiger with circular patterns and black rosettes, but smaller than a tiger; composed of the beast radical (豸) with an abbreviated bāo (包) phonetic; zhì (豸) is pronounced zhì").

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一切經音義 — 慧琳, Classical Chinese