Chou Collection, Upper Volume
Radical: Mouth (kǒu)
Character: Yi
Kangxi Stroke Count: 22
Page 215, Entry 01
Broad Rhymes (Guangyun): Pronounced yi (falling tone)
Collected Rhymes (Jiyun): Pronounced yi (falling tone)
Orthography Rhymes (Zhengyun): Pronounced yi (falling tone)
The sound is identical to the character for art (yi).
Jade Chapters (Yupian): Refers to laughing while dreaming.
Jade Chapters (Yupian): Refers to talking in one's sleep.
Collected Rhymes (Jiyun): Refers to sounds emitted while sleeping.
Book of Master Lie (Liezi), Chapter on King Mu of Zhou: To emit sleeptalking, moaning, and shouting sounds while asleep.
Yang Shen, Records of Cinnabar and Lead (Danqian Lu): Written as the variant form (an).
Records of Gleanings (Shiyiji): Records that Lü Meng of the State of Wu was proficient in the Book of Changes (Yijing) while talking in his sleep.
Broad Rhymes (Guangyun): Identical to the character (yi).
Collection of Rhymes (Yunhui): Written as the variant form (yi).
Textual verification: Book of Master Lie (Liezi), Chapter on King Mu of Zhou, originally read as having the character for staring in the middle of talking in one's sleep and moaning. Based on the original text, the character for staring has been changed to the character for sleep.