一切經音義 70.196

70.196

文字（上云慈恣反案說文普蒼頡造書依類象形故謂之文其後形聲相益即謂之字字生也孳乳浸多）。

文字 Written characters (the first character has the pronunciation cí + zì fanqie. According to the Shuowen: Cangjie originally created writing by categorising and depicting shapes, hence it was called wén (graphs); afterwards, form and sound were combined to augment them, which was called zì (characters). Zì means to bear; they breed and proliferate, gradually increasing).