一切經音義 33.338

33.338

衣飴（上倚機反世本云胡曹作衣也宋忠云黃帝臣也白虎通云衣隱也隱身形也說文衣依也上曰衣下曰裳從入象覆二人形也隸書作衣訛略也下以伊反毛詩云堇音謹荼音[圖-囗]如飴箋云甘如飴也說文云米蘗煎也從食台聲也）。

Clothing and malt sugar (yiyi; the upper character is yi-ji fan. The Shiben says: "Hucao invented clothing." Song Zhong says: "He was a minister of the Yellow Emperor." The Baihu tong says: "Clothing (yi) means concealment (yin); it conceals the shape of the body." The Shuowen jiezi says: "Clothing means reliance. The upper is called yi; the lower is called chang. It takes the ru classifier, depicting the covering of two people's forms." In clerical script it is written as 衣, which is an error and abbreviation. The lower character is yi-yi fan. The Classic of Poetry says: "Jin (sound jin) and tu (sound tu) are sweet as malt sugar (yi)." The commentary says: "Sweet as malt sugar." The Shuowen jiezi says: "Decocted malted grain. It takes the food classifier and tai as phonetic").