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續一切經音義 3.123

續一切經音義 3.123

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Classical Chinese

3.123

貓貍(上莫交反詩云有貓似虎切韻云捕鼠獸也下力之反切韻云野貍也爾雅曰貙似貍郭注云貙虎類也大如猫文如貍也二字皆從豸經文從犬作猫狸非正字也)。

Wildcat and civet (貓貍: the first character has the fanqie 莫 + 交. The Shijing says: "There are cats resembling tigers." The Qieyun says: "Beasts that catch mice." The second character has the fanqie 力 + 之. The Qieyun says: "Wild civet." The Erya says: "The chu (貙) resembles a civet." Guo [Pu's] commentary says: "The chu belongs to the tiger family, large as a cat with patterns like a civet." Both characters are formed with the feline radical [豸]. The sūtra text writes them with the dog radical as 猫狸, which are not correct characters).

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