Shen Collection, Middle Volume
Radical: Tiger (hǔ)
Page 1073, Entry 11
Pronounced chǔ (rising tone).
Jade Chapters (Yupian): To dwell.
Book of Odes (Shijing): There is no one who has time to dwell.
Also, to stop.
Book of Odes (Shijing): Its descendants dwell there.
Broad Rhymes (Guangyun): To remain, to rest, to settle.
Also, a dwelling or residence.
Book of Odes (Shijing): At that time, dwelling here and there.
Also, to return or go to a place.
Zuo Tradition (Zuozhuan): The people have their sleeping quarters and ancestral temples, the beasts have their dense grass; each has their proper place to dwell.
Also, to distinguish or partition.
History of Jin (Jinshu): Once the partitions and arrangements were settled, he petitioned for the time to attack Wu.
Also, to control or regulate.
History of Jin (Jinshu): Among the people, trickery and falsity proliferated; even though they were controlled with severity, it could not be prohibited.
Also, a surname.
History of the Former Han (Hanshu): Nine chapters of the Master Chu.
Commentary by Shigu: The Records of the Grand Historian (Shiji) says: Zhao had a Master Chu.
Broad Rhymes (Guangyun): The Customs and Traditions (Fengsu Tong) says: During the Han dynasty, there was a Governor of Beihai named Chu Xing.
Also, the name of a prefecture.
Comprehensive Gazetteer (Yitongzhi): During the Jin dynasty, it belonged to Yongjia Commandery; during the Sui dynasty, Chu Prefecture was established.
Also, pronounced chù (departing tone).
A place or location.
Book of Odes (Shijing): Where to reside, where to dwell, where to have lost the horse.
Discourses of the States (Guoyu): Five and three places.
Commentary: A place is a residence; the three places refer to the wilderness, the court, and the market.
Also, sometimes written as a variant form (jù). Used in personal names; in the state of Qi, there was Liangqiu Chu.
Also, interchangeable with the character pronounced chǔ (rising tone).
Spring and Autumn Annals of Mr. Gongyang (Gongyang Zhuan): Hou Chu Jiu died.
Commentary: The Zuo Tradition (Zuozhuan) writes it as Chu Jiu.
Script Analysis (Shuowen): Written as the variant form (chǔ).
Broad Rhymes (Guangyun): Commonly written as a variant form.
Textual Research: In the Book of Odes (Shijing) citation regarding the descendants dwelling there, the original text has been corrected from Wang Feng to Zhao Nan.