一切經音義 47.370

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文身（梵言𭶳膽那此言顯了但以文能顯義故以代之舊言味身或云字身一也𭶳蒲眠反案說文昔蒼頡造書依類象形故謂之文其後形聲相益即謂之字字者孳乳浸多也孳生也）。

Wenshen 文身 (phoneme-body / vyañjana-kāya: in Sanskrit vyañjana, here meaning 'making distinct / illuminating'. But because written graphs (wen) can manifest meaning, it is used instead. Formerly it was called 'flavor-body' (weishen 味身) or 'grapheme-body' (zishen 字身), which are the same thing. The character [for vya] is pū-mián fanqie. Examining the Shuowen: 'In ancient times Cangjie created writing according with categories and imitating forms, hence they were called wen 文; thereafter, shape and sound supplemented each other, which were then called zi 字. Zi refers to breeding and gradually multiplying; zī 孳 means producing').