一切經音義 70.196

70.196

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).