Shen Collection, Lower Volume
Radical: Clothing (yī)
Character: Zhou
Kangxi strokes: 14
Page 1118, Entry 29
Pronounced chou.
Classified dictionary: A quilt.
Book of Odes (Shijing), Shao South: Embracing the bedding and the zhou.
Commentary: A single-layered quilt.
Sub-commentary: Bed curtains.
Collection of Rhymes (Yunhui): In the Han dynasty, bed curtains were called zhou, therefore the term also refers to bed curtains.
Also pronounced dao.
A garment sleeve.
Yangzi’s Dialect (Fangyan): Undershirts are called dizhou in regions west of the pass.
Guo commentary: Also called yanting.
Biography of Yang Xu in the Book of the Later Han (Hou Hanshu): Possessed only a cloth quilt and a tattered dizhou.
Also pronounced zhu.
An unlined garment.
Collection of Rhymes (Yunhui): Interchangeable with the character for an unlined garment.