Chen Collection, Upper Volume Radical: Sun (rì) Kangxi Strokes: 15 Page 499, Entry 29 Ancient script. Tang Rhyme (Tangyun), Collected Rhymes (Jiyun), Rhyme Compilation (Yunhui): pronounced bao (falling tone); Correct Rhymes (Zhengyun): pronounced bao (falling tone); sounds like bao. Shuowen Jiezi: To dry in the sun. Book of Documents (Shujing), Taishi chapter: "Dare to practice tyranny." Commentary: Dare to implement cruel tyranny and slaughter the innocent. Also, Book of Rites (Liji), Wangzhi chapter: Hunting that does not follow ritual propriety is called bao tian (wasting the gifts of heaven). Commentary: This refers to the cruel abuse and destruction of the things heaven has produced and nurtured. Also, Rites of Zhou (Zhouli), Autumn Offices: "Prohibition of Violence" commentary: Prohibiting the common people from bullying and practicing violence against one another. Also, Book of Odes (Shijing), Beifeng chapter: Blowing all day with intensity. Commentary: Bao means swift and rapid. Commentary: A great wind blowing violently. Also, Book of Odes (Shijing), Zhengfeng chapter: Bare-chested and empty-handed fighting a tiger. Commentary: Fighting a tiger with empty hands. Also, Xunzi, Fushuo chapter: Piled up high like a mountain hill. Annotation: Bao-bao describes something that rises suddenly. Also, Records of the Grand Historian (Shiji), Annals of Xiang Yu: Why did it rise so rapidly? Boya: Bao means suddenly. Also, Guanzi, Chengma chapter: A place six li square is named a bao; five bao are named a bu. Also: Ten families form a lian, and five lian form a bao. Also a place name. Zuo Tradition (Zuo Zhuan), 8th year of Duke Wen: Duke Sui met with the Luorong at the territory of Bao. Annotation: Bao is a place in the state of Zheng. Also a surname. History of the Former Han (Qianhan), Biography of Juan Buyi: Bao Shengzhi served as an imperial inspector. Also, Guangyun: pronounced pu; Jiyun, Yunhui, Zhengyun: pronounced pu; sounds like pu. To dry under the sun. Commonly written as pu. Xiao Erya: Bao means to sun-dry. Rites of Zhou (Zhouli), Winter Offices, Kaogongji: The clan exposes them to the sun during the day. Mencius: To sun-dry it for one day. Xunzi, Fushuo chapter: One's reputation is sufficient to shine as brightly as the scorching sun. Also, Mencius: Exposing it before the people, and the people accepted it. Zhu Xi commentary: Bao means to manifest or make bright. Also, History of the Later Han (Houhan), Biography of Dou Rong: These are all events recently made manifest. Annotation: Bao means to expose or reveal. Also, Jiyun: pronounced bo; Erya, Explanations of Words: Pi-liu is called bao-le. Commentary: When the branches and leaves of a tree are sparse and uneven, it is called bao-le. Also pronounced bo. Also pronounced bao. The meaning is the same. Also pronounced bao. Xiao-bao refers to something dried and bent. Also sometimes written as bao, referring to something raised or bulging. Also, Rhyme Supplement (Yunbu): pronounced bu (falling tone). Yilin: Benevolent politics is not cruel, and the phoenix flies to the earth direction. The four seasons follow their order, and the people dwell peacefully in their villages. (The character xiao was originally written with the grass radical above and the strike radical below).