續一切經音義 8.75

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Parrot (鸚鵡: the first character is [pronounced] 烏耕 [yīng]; the second character has the sound wǔ [wǔ], or is written as 䳇. The Classic of Mountains and Seas says: "On Mount Huang there is a bird with blue-green feathers and a red beak, and a human tongue that can speak human language, named yīngwǔ." Both are pictophoretic characters composed of 鳥 with 嬰 and 武).

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