Chen Collection, Lower Volume Radical: Bad (dǎi) Kangxi Strokes: 14 Page 582, Entry 30 Pronounced chòu (falling tone). Shuowen Jiezi (Explaining Single-component Characters and Analyzing Compound Characters): The odor of decay. Yupian (Jade Chapters): The odor of spoiled matter. History of the Former Han (Qianhan shu), Biography of Yang Wangsun: The excavation does not reach the springs below, nor does it let the stench escape above. History of the Former Han, Biography of Yang Yun: When the Chanyu received fine food and good items from the Han, he called them foul. Also pronounced xiù (falling tone). Same meaning. Also pronounced xiǔ (third tone). It means stench. Jiyun (Collection of Rhymes): Sometimes written in a variant form (chòu). Yunhui (Collection of Rhymes): Originally written as this character, and commonly written as the character for stench (chòu). Zuo Zhuan (Zuo’s Commentary), Commentary and Sub-commentary: The character for stench is a general term for odor; it was originally not a term for good or bad. Once good odor is called fragrance, then the term is specifically used for foul odors. The character is written with the radical for bad. Correction: In the Biography of Yang Yun, when it says when the Chanyu received fine food and good items, it was written as he called them foul. Based on the original text, it has been corrected from he considered them to he called them.