一切經音義 45.5

45.5

依著 [Rely upon and cling to] (the first character is pronounced with the fanqie yǐ + xī [yī]. Wang Su's commentary on the Book of Documents states: "Yī means to assist." The commentary to the Mao Classic of Poetry states: "Yī means to rely on." The gloss states: "To speak of yī means to love." The Shuowen states: "It takes 'rén' (人) as its semantic classifier and 'yī' (衣) as its phonetic component." The sūtra text writes it with 'quǎn' (犬) as '猗'; examining the Shuowen, that means a castrated dog, which is completely contrary to the meaning in the sūtra; it is pronounced like jiè [jiè]. The second character is pronounced with the fanqie wén + lüè [wò]).