一切經音義 85.174

85.174

東鰈: [鰈] has the fanqie *th- / hap* (貪盍反); the flatfish (bǐmùyú); its shape is like a bovine spleen, with fine scales and a black colour; as half-fish, each possesses only one eye, and they must unite before they can swim; this fish exists in the waters east of the Yangtze River; vulgarly called wángyú (King's remainder); the Shuowen says it is a fish; or written with 'qù' (去), with the same pronunciation as 'dié'; a phono-semantic compound character.