膈

Pronunciation
Five Elements
Strokes16 strokes

Basic Info

Pronunciation
Five Elements
Fortune None
Radical
Simplified Strokes 14 strokes
Traditional Strokes 16 strokes

Naming Meaning

Kangxi Dictionary

View Original Page 991
View Original Page 991
Wei Collection, Lower Volume Radical: Meat (ròu) Kangxi Strokes: 16 Page 991, Entry 03 Broad Rimes (Guangyun): Pronounced ge (rising tone). Collected Rimes (Jiyun) and Collection of Rhymes (Yunhui): Pronounced ge (rising tone). Jade Chapters (Yupian): The chest partition. Collected Rimes (Jiyun): The diaphragm. Orthography of Rimes (Zhengyun): The chest diaphragm, the space between the heart and spleen. Explanation of Names (Shiming): Diaphragm means to block; it manages the upper and lower passages so that breath and grain do not become intermingled. Also, it refers to the frame for suspending a bell. Records of the Grand Historian (Shiji), Treatise on Rites (Lishu): Suspending one bell, one still taps the frame. Commentary: The Suoyin states: The frame is the rack for suspending bells and chimes. One does not strike the bell but taps the frame; it is said that one does not seek its sound but rather its fundamental quality. Xunzi, Discussion on Rites (Lilun pian): Suspending one bell, one still taps its frame, with red strings and resonant sound holes. Also, according to Orthography of Rimes (Zhengyun), it is also written in the variant form ge. Pingyuan has a Ge county; therefore, the people of Jin referred to bad wine as the Pingyuan supervisor of post stations, because it only sits above the ge.

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