Wei Collection, Upper Volume
Radical: Bamboo (zhú)
Fú
Kangxi strokes: 14
Page 888, Entry 06
Pronounced fú. An implement for holding bows and arrows.
Book of Rites (Zhouli), Summer Offices: In the second month of autumn, they present the arrows and the quiver. Annotation: A quiver is an implement for holding arrows.
Also: In hunting and fowling, fill the baskets and quivers with arrows. Annotation: A basket is a bamboo-made quiver.
Book of the Later Han (Houhanshu), Treatise on Carriages and Clothing: The plowing carriage, used to store the plows and quivers, is the one the emperor rides when performing the personal plowing ceremony. Commonly written as the character for clothing (fú).
Book of Odes (Shijing), Lesser Odes: With ivory-adorned ends and fish-skin quivers.
Discourses of the States (Guoyu), Discourses of Zheng: Bows of wild mulberry and quivers of basketry. Annotation: Fú means an arrow bag.
Collected Rhymes (Jiyun): Sometimes written in a variant form (bài).