Chou Collection, Lower Volume Radical: Big (dà) Page 253, Entry 07 Ancient form. According to Tang Rhymes (Tangyun), Collected Rhymes (Jiyun), Dictionary of Rhymes (Yunhui), and Rectified Rhymes (Zhengyun), pronounced duo. To take by force. In the History of the Former Han (Qianhan shu), chapter on Food and Money: Wealthy merchants and powerful families must not violently seize from our people. In the Annals of Emperor Jing (Jingdi ji): To fish for and seize from the common people. In The Master of Letters (Wenzhongzi), chapter on The Royal Way: Those who bestow benefits lightly must be fond of seizing. Also, the reduction of an official salary rank is called duo. In the Analects (Lunyu): To seize three hundred households from the Bo family. Also, a narrow path. In the Book of Rites (Liji), chapter on Tan Gong: Duke Zhuang of Qi attacked Ju at Duo. Note that in the Zuo Commentary (Zuo zhuan), twenty-third year of Duke Xiang: The Marquis of Qi attacked Ju, and Qi Zhi and Hua Huan carried armor, entering at night through the tunnel of Qieyu. The Du commentary states: Qieyu is a town of Ju, and a tunnel is a narrow path. Zheng Xuan cited this to verify the classic, saying: The sounds of tunnel and duo are similar. It is also said: Sometimes written as dui. According to this, duo is not a place name. Duo is the ancient character for duo, and dui is the abbreviated form of duo. Hao failed to investigate and mistakenly provided the pronunciation dui; dictionary compilers followed this and defined it as a place name, which is incorrect. Also pronounced que. In the poems of Bai Juyi,桐花诗 (Tonghua shi): How in these Ba Gorges, the tung flowers bloom in the tenth month. Grass and trees are firm and strong things, what they possess is truly difficult to take away. Also rhyming with di, pronounced di. In the Great Measure (Dadu shou): Stones are red and cannot be taken away, the integrity of a scholar is certain. The original character for duo is written with the radical for strike.