一切經音義 96.92

96.92

𧉨螶 [qióngjù] (The first character has the fanqie 𡱈顒 [qióng + yóng]; the second has the fanqie 強魚 [qiáng + yú]. The Erya says: 'In the west there is a shoulder-sharing beast (bǐjiānshòu), which is paired with the qióngqióng and jùxū. The jùxū grazes on sweet grass; when danger arises, the qióngqióng and jùxū carry it and run; each of them is called jué.' The Lüshi chunqiu says: 'In the north there is a beast named jué; its front legs resemble a hare's; when trotting it stumbles, when running it tumbles.' Thus the qióngqióng and jùxū must also have rodent-like hind legs and hare-like forelegs; their fronts being high, they cannot reach the sweet grass, hence they need the jué to feed them. Nowadays on Mount Xiawu in Guangwu County of Yanmen, there is a beast shaped like a large hare; they carry one another and travel together; local custom calls it the jué rodent. The Shuowen says: '𧉨 is a beast; it takes 虫 as semantic and 卭 as phonetic.' 螶 takes 䖵 as semantic and 巨 as phonetic. The collected edition writes 䭹駏, like horses, which are not this beast, a gross error. 蟨 has the fanqie 居衛 [jū + wèi]; 卭 is pronounced the same as above; 䖵 is pronounced 昆 [kūn]. The same applies below).