一切經音義 86.64

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Turtle and crane (龜鶴: the first [character] is *gui-wei* [g- + -uī = guī] in fanqie; the Wenzi dianshuo says: “Among the three hundred and sixty shelled creatures, the turtle is chief; it is bony on the outside and fleshy on the inside; the prime turtle is one foot and two inches long, and lives more than a thousand years; it is a pictographic character.” The second is *he-ge* [h- + -è = hè] in fanqie; the character dictionary says: “It is the name of an immortal bird; with one lift of its wings it flies a thousand miles.” The Shuowen says: “Categorized under 'bird' with 隺 as phonetic; 隺 is pronounced the same as above. Those with red crowns live over ten thousand years; it is the most spiritually intelligent among birds and is ridden by immortals; it is a phono-semantic character”).