一切經音義 41.66

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41.66

Freshwater softshell turtles (鼈: fanqie biān-miè. The Shuowen jiezi says: "An aquatic shelled creature; composed of the toad radical (黽) with bì (敝) phonetic." In the sūtra text, writing it with the fish radical as 鱉 is a vulgar character. Miǎn (黽) is pronounced měng; bì (敝) is fanqie pí-mèi).

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一切經音義 — 慧琳, Classical Chinese