一切經音義 55.122

55.122

梟獸 ('ferocious beasts'): For the first character, the fanqie is [j- + iao >] jiǎo and [y- + ao >] yáo. Zheng Xuan's commentary on the Classic of Poetry says: 'The 梟 is an ill-omened crying bird.' The Shuowen says: 'A bird's head upon a tree; an associative compound character.' The second character is the standard form of the character 獸 ('beast').