續一切經音義 1.37

1.37

Fish and softshell turtle (魚鼈: the upper character has the fanqie 語居. The Shuowen says: "An aquatic creature." The Erya says: "The tail of a fish is called bǐng." Guo [Pu]'s commentary says: "It resembles the seal-script character bǐng (丙); colloquially written as the character yú (魚)." The lower character has the fanqie 鞭滅. The Shuowen says: "A shelled aquatic creature. Formed with [the semantic element] mǐn (黽) and [the phonetic element] bì (敝)." In the sūtra text it is written with 'fish' (魚) as 鱉, which is a vulgar character. Mǐn is pronounced měng).