Zi Collection, Middle Volume Radical: Person (rén) Character: fù Kangxi Strokes: 5 Page: Page 92, Number 12 According to the Tangyun (Tangyun), Jiyun (Jiyun), and Yunhui (Yunhui): the phonetic combination of fāng and yù, pronounced like chuán. To give or to bestow. Confucius said: If it is indeed possible to entrust someone, then entrust them. In this way, one does not become exhausted, and talented individuals are not lost. — Records of the Kong Family Teachings (Kongcongzi), Jiyi Chapter. Also according to the Jiyun: the phonetic combination of fú and yù. Identical to the ancestral sacrifice fù. The name of a sacrificial rite. The Grand Invocator oversaw the ritual specialist reading the prayers and the burial sacrifices for national affairs. — Rites of Zhou (Zhouli), Spring Officers (Chunguan). Note: the character fù should be the ancestral sacrifice fù. Also a surname. The Shuowen Jiezi (Shuowen) describes the character structure as being composed of the element for inch (cùn), representing holding an object and facing a person. Xu Xuan explains that the element for inch (cùn) refers to the hand. It is also written in a variant form pronounced jǐn. Textual Research: In the Rites of Zhou (Zhouli), Spring Officers (Chunguan), under the entry for the Grand Invocator, for the passage regarding the ritual specialist reading the prayers and the sacrificial rites for national affairs, the character xiáng (detailed) has been corrected to the character xiáng (auspicious) according to the original text.