續一切經音義 3.70

3.70

猨𤜴（上雨元反爾雅曰猱猨善援也下余救反山海經云鬲山多蜼音同上郭璞注云似獼猴而大蒼黑色尾長四五尺似獺尾頭有兩歧天雨則倒懸於樹以尾塞鼻江東養之捕鼠切韻云虫名也亦作[(白/虫)*虫][豸*冘]狖古字有作㹨非）。

Apes and gibbons (猨𤜴: the first character has the fanqie 雨元 [yu + yuan / yuán]. The Erya says: "The naoyuan is good at climbing." The second character has the fanqie 余救 [yu + jiu / yòu]. The Shanhaijing says: "Mount Ge has many you monkeys"; the pronunciation is the same as above. Guo Pu's commentary says: "It resembles a macaque but is larger, dark grey-black, with a tail four or five feet long resembling an otter's tail, and a cleft head. When it rains, it hangs upside down from trees, plugging its nostrils with its tail. People in Jiangdong raise them to catch rats." The Qieyun says: "The name of an animal." It is also written as [(白/虫)*虫], [豸*冘], or 狖. In ancient characters it was written 㹨, which is incorrect.)