You Collection, Lower Volume Radical: Shell (bèi) Fee (fèi); Kangxi stroke count: 12; Page 1207, Entry 01 Broad Rhymes (Guangyun), Collected Rhymes (Jiyun), Rhymes Compendium (Yunhui), Correct Rhymes (Zhengyun): Pronounced fèi (falling tone). Explanation of Characters (Shuowen): To scatter wealth or use resources. Commentary: Xu states that wealth scattered is like boiling water. Analects (Lunyu): The superior man is generous but does not exhaust resources. He Yan commentary: To not exhaust wealth. Also from Jade Chapters (Yupian): To lose, to consume. Book of Rites (Liji): Do not use wasteful language. Han Fu Outer Commentary (Hanshi Waizhuan): Is it not a public expense? Also from Jade Chapters (Yupian): To use. Records of the Grand Historian (Shiji): Therefore, the one who offered a hundred catties of gold intended it to be used for the lady's coarse food and clothing expenses. Also from Broad Rhymes (Guangyun): Kindness. Also from Collected Rhymes (Jiyun): Pronounced fú (rising tone). Book of Rites (Liji): The way of the superior man is extensive yet subtle. Zheng commentary: This implies divergence. Explanation of Texts (Shiwen): Originally also written as a variant form (fú). Zhu Commentary: Extensive use. Pronounced fú (falling tone). Also from Broad Rhymes (Guangyun), Collected Rhymes (Jiyun), Correct Rhymes (Zhengyun): Pronounced bì (falling tone). Name of a city, located in the state of Lu. Identical to the city name (bì). Book of Documents (Shushu) Fee Oaths Commentary: The place name for the eastern suburbs of Lu. Also from Collected Rhymes (Jiyun): Pronounced fèi (falling tone). A surname. Emergency Manual (Jijiupian) commentary: The Fee family are descendants of the Chu official Fei Wuji. During the Han dynasty, there was Fei Zhi.