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續一切經音義 6.62

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6.62

Crested myna (鴝鵒: the first character has the fanqie *j- / j-*, the second is pronounced yu 欲; the Zhouli says: "The quyu (crested myna) does not cross the Ji River"; the Huainanzi says: "The quyu is also named hangao (cold-marsh)"; the Yiyuan says: "Pinching the double tongue of a quyu on the double fifth day allows it to learn human speech"; both characters are derived from niao 鳥 with ju 句 and gu 谷 as phonetics; the sūtra text writes it as ququ 鸜鸜, the name of a magpie, which is not used correctly here).

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