一切經音義 56.183

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鸕鶿: (Fanqie: 郎 + 都 [láng-dū]; the second character is also written as 鶿; fanqie: 才 + 資 [cái-zī]). The Zilin states: 'The cormorant resembles a teal and is black; it is a water bird. Its throat and head are curved like a hook, and it feeds on fish. This bird gives birth through the mouth, vomiting them out, giving birth to eight or nine at one brood. In the central plains, people sometimes call it the water crow.' The pronunciation of 鷁 is the fanqie: 五 + 歷 [wǔ-lì]).