You Collection, Upper Volume Radical: Speech (yán) 13 strokes Page 1159, Entry 07 Pronounced chou. Shuowen Jiezi (Shuowen): Deceit. Yupian: To respond. Guangyun: To answer with words. Biography of Cui Yin, Book of the Later Han (Hou Hanshu): Also wailing to respond and sigh. Biography of Xie, History of the Southern Dynasties (Nan Shi): Those eminent ones are difficult to respond to or converse with. Biography of Liu Fang, History of the Northern Dynasties (Bei Shi): To respond to questions and debates. Classic of the Yuan Bao (Yuan Bao Jing): A response to a proclamation; the later speech is given in answer. Commentary: This is the same as the character for reward (chou). Also pronounced chou (falling tone). Same meaning. Also pronounced zhou (falling tone). To curse. Interchangable with the terms for prayer and incantation (zhu zhou).