You Collection, Lower Volume
Radical: Carriage (chē)
Kangxi strokes: 16
Page 1246, Entry 17
Guangyun: Pronounced chun. Jiyun and Yunhui: Pronounced chun. Dengyun: Pronounced chun.
Guangyun: A carriage used for transporting a coffin.
Book of Rites (Liji), Tan Gong: A coffin cart coated with clay and decorated with dragons.
Commentary: A carriage used to carry a coffin, painted with dragons on the side boards, hence the name dragon carriage.
It is also used for traveling through mud.
Book of Documents (Shangshu), Yiji: The Four Vehicles commentary: For mud, use a carriage; it is made of planks in the shape of a winnowing basket, pushed over the mud.
Records of the Grand Historian (Shiji), River and Canal Treatise: Written as qiao.
Book of Han (Hanshu), Treatise on Ditches and Canals: Written as cui.
Also, in the Book of Rites (Liji), Record of Funeral Rites: Officials use this carriage for burials.
Commentary: This carriage should be written as the quan of a quan carriage. According to the Yupian, this character is the same as the character for a round carriage and is not the same as quan. Quan is the same as quan. Various books often confuse these terms, which is noted here for reference.
Textual research: Book of Rites (Liji), Record of Funeral Rites: Officials use this carriage for burials. Corrected to match the original text.