Shen Collection, Upper Volume
Radical: Grass (cǎo)
Kangxi Strokes: 18
Page 1056, Entry 15
Collected Rhymes (Jiyun) and Rhyme Assembly (Yunhui) define it as pronounced bi (falling tone).
Shuowen (Explaining Graphs and Analyzing Characters) defines it as small grass.
Broad Rhymes (Guangyun) defines it as to cover.
Book of Rites (Liji), Monthly Ordinances (Yueling) states: Examine those who are partial and criminal, let there be no covering up.
Also, it means slight or subtle.
Erya (Approaching Elegance), Explanation of Words (Shigu Shu) states: Bi means to cover or screen, causing something to be obscured.
Analects (Lunyu) states: The three hundred poems of the Book of Odes (Shijing) can be summarized in one phrase.
He Yan's commentary states: It means to stand for or represent.
Small Erya (Xiao Erya) defines it as to cut off or decide.
Songs of Chu (Chuci), Summoning of the Soul (Zhaohun) mentions: Ivory gaming pieces (bi) and ivory chess pieces.
Commentary states: Bi refers to gaming markers.
Also a place name.
Discourses of the States (Guoyu), Discourses of Zheng (Zhengyu) mentions: Yan, Bi, Bu, Dan, Yi, Li, Xin, and Shen.
Commentary states: These are eight cities.
Collected Rhymes (Jiyun) defines it as pronounced bi (falling tone), same meaning as above.
Also pronounced fu.
Rites of Zhou (Zhouli), Spring Officials (Chunguan), Official Carriage (Jinche) mentions: There are reed screens, ornamental screens, water-plant screens, and decorative screens.
Commentary states: Screens on a carriage to ward off wind and dust.
Also pronounced bie.
Categorized Dictionary (Leipian) defines it as to hide or cover.
Jiang Yan's poetry states: The milk-drip cave already drips, the cinnabar well again is deep and vast. The craggy cliffs turn strangely beautiful, the mountain peaks return to mutually obscure.
Also pronounced pie.
Means to separate. Another definition is to strike or to brush.
Records of the Grand Historian (Shiji), Biography of Jing Ke states: Kneeling and brushing aside the mat.
Also pronounced bi (entering tone).
Book of Odes (Shijing), Odes of Shao (Shaonan) mentions: The lush and luxuriant sweet pear tree. Shen Zhong reads it as bi. Sometimes written in a variant form.
