續一切經音義 4.69

4.69

Apes and monkeys (yuanhou 猿猴: the first character has the fanqie [reading] wang + yuan [yuan]. The Erya writes it as 蝯 and states: "The naoyuan is good at pulling itself up." Guo [Pu's] commentary states: "It is adept at climbing and clambering." The second character is pronounced hou: a macaque. It takes 'dog' [as semantic component] and hou as phonetic).