一切經音義 86.128

86.128

Large whales 鯨鯢 (the first character is pronounced with the fanqie 競 + 京; the second character is pronounced with the fanqie 詣 + 雞; Xu Shuzhong [Xu Shen] says: "The whale is the king of fish." Gu Yewang says: "The ni is a devourer of small fish." Du [Yu's] commentary says: "The jing and ni are great fish." The Huainanzi says: "When a whale dies, a comet appears," which is an example. The Shuowen jiezi also says they are great fish; both jing and ni take the fish radical 魚, with 京 and 兒 respectively serving as phonetics; 兒 has the same pronunciation as given above).