一切經音義 94.18

94.18

犀枕 (the first character has the fanqie xiang + qi [xī]; Guo Pu's commentary on the Erya says: "The rhinoceros resembles a water buffalo, with a pig's head, large belly, short legs, three hooves, black body, and two horns, one on its forehead and one on its nose; what is now called a rhinoceros pillow is made of rhinoceros horn as a pillow." The Shuowen says: "犀 [xī] has the ox radical and wei phonetic." The second character, 枕 [zhěn], is properly with the wood radical, and 冘 has the pronunciation yin [yín]).