一切經音義 86.123

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Tiny mouse 鼷鼠 (the first character is pronounced with the fanqie 賢 + 雞; the Spring and Autumn Annals says: "Tiny mice gnawed the sacrificial bull," which is an example. Gu Yewang says: "Tiny mice eat humans and birds and beasts until they are consumed, yet [the victims] are neither aware nor feel pain." The Shuowen jiezi says: "A small mouse; it takes the mouse radical 鼠 and the phonetic 奚").