一切經音義 87.165

87.165

Monkey trainer (狙公: first character fanqie 七余; a type of macaque. Looking at the Zhuangzi, it says: "The monkey trainer said to the monkeys: 'If I give you three in the morning and four in the evening, how is that?' The monkeys were all angry. 'If I give you four in the morning and three in the evening, how is that?' The monkeys were all pleased." The Shuowen says it is formed from 犬 with 且 phonetic. In the treatise it is written with the character 狙).