一切經音義 77.167

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獫玁 (The first character has the fanqie 力 + 贍. The Erya says: 'A dog with a long snout is called 獫.' The Shuowen says: 'A black dog with yellow cheeks; the name for a black dog.' The second character has the fanqie 戲 + 撿. The Mao Commentary to the Classic of Poetry says: 'Northern Di barbarians; also called 獫狁 [Xianyun].' Zheng Xuan says: 'Namely the present-day Xiongnu.' The Gujin zhengzi says: 'Both characters are formed with "dog" [犬] as semantic, with 僉 and 嚴 respectively as phonetics.')