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續一切經音義 8.107

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8.107

Címíhóu (female macaque) (the first character is properly written as 雌, with the fanqie cǐ + yí. The Qieyun says: "Male and female." The Shuowen jiezi says: "A female bird/beast is called cí; formed with the 'short-tailed bird' radical and the phonetic cǐ." The second character is written as 獼, pronounced wǔ + yí. Gu Yewang says: "Mí is a monkey").

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