Mao Collection, Middle Volume Radical: Hand (shǒu) Kangxi stroke count: 15 Page 450, Entry 23 Pronounced cui. Read as zui (level tone). Shuowen Jiezi (Dictionary of Character Etymology): To squeeze. Also defined as to stir. Also defined as to break. Also defined as to frustrate. Book of Odes (Shijing), Odes of Bei: The members of the household all together berate me. Mao Commentary: To berate is a word for censure and mockery. Zengyun (Additional Rhymes): To defeat, to suppress. Records of the Grand Historian (Shiji), Biography of Ji Bu: Able to temper the hard into the soft. Erya (Approximation of Terms): To reach. Yang Xiong, Fangyan (Regional Dialects): To reach; this is the language of Chu. Book of Odes (Shijing), Greater Odes: The ancestral spirits have arrived. Commentary: To arrive. Sub-commentary: Where have the ancestral spirits arrived? Also, to extinguish. Book of Odes (Shijing), Greater Odes, Commentary by Zhu Xi: The ancestral sacrifices will from this point be extinguished. Pronounced zui (level tone). To retreat. Book of Changes (Yijing), Hexagram Jin: Advancing like retreating. Zheng Kangcheng reading. Pronounced cui. To diminish. Pronounced cuo. Equivalent to the character cuo. To chop straw for fodder. Book of Odes (Shijing), Lesser Odes: The team of horses is in the stable, chop their fodder and feed them. Commentary: The character used here is the modern version of the character for chopping fodder.