續一切經音義 3.70

3.70

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.)