一切經音義 27.484

27.484

經書（周禮六藝五曰六書謂象形會意轉注指事形聲假借也書者著也依類象形謂之文其後形聲相益謂之字字者孳乳而浸多也著於竹帛謂之書書如也所以著明萬物紀往知來又書於禮牘縑紙謂之字又書亦籍）。

經書 (In the Rites of Zhou, of the six arts the fifth is called the six scripts, meaning pictographs, associative compounds, mutually defining characters, indicative characters, phono-semantic compounds, and phonetic loan characters. Shu [writing/books] means to make manifest. Depicting forms according to categories is called wen [patterns]. Subsequently, phonetics and semantices supplementing each other is called zi [characters]. Zi means proliferating and gradually increasing. Inscribing them on bamboo and silk is called shu [books]. Shu is 'as such' [ru], that by which the myriad things are clearly manifested, past events recorded, and future things known. Furthermore, writing on ritual tablets and fine silk is called zi; moreover, shu also means registers).