一切經音義 57.77

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57.77

畜牲 ('domestic animals'; the second character is pronounced with the fanqie 省 + 英. Zheng [Xuan's] commentary on the Zhouli says: "Oxen, horses, sheep, pigs, chickens, and dogs are called the six domestic sacrificial animals (牲)." Du [Yu's] commentary on the Zuo zhuan says: "Giving an ox a designation [for sacrifice] is called 'sheng' (牲)." The Shuowen says it is formed from [the radical] 牛 with 生 as the phonetic component).

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一切經音義 — 慧琳, Classical Chinese