一切經音義 70.9

English (machine translation) 70.9

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70.9

Turtles and alligators (龜鼉: has the fanqie tú + duō. The Sancang says: 'Resembles a flood-dragon (jiāo) but larger.' The Shanhaijing says: 'The Jiang River has an abundance of alligators.' Guo Pu says: 'Resembles a lizard; large ones are ten feet long, with colourful scales, and can be made into drums. The Shijing says, "The alligator-skin drums sound féng-féng," which refers to this.' The character form is derived from 黽 [toad/reptile] with 𠹈 phonetic; 𠹈 has the sound nà; 黽 has the fanqie mò + gěng).

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一切經音義 — 慧琳, Classical Chinese