Wei Collection, Upper Volume
Radical: Bamboo (zhú)
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Kangxi stroke count: 16
Page 894, Entry 05
Guangyun (Dictionary of Sounds and Meanings): Pronounced gou.
Jiyun (Collective Rhymes), Yunhui (Collection of Rhymes), Zhengyun (Correct Rhymes): Pronounced gou.
Shuowen (Explaining Graphs and Analyzing Characters): A basket used for scenting clothes with incense.
Yangzi's Dialects (Fangyan): Among the states of Chen, Chu, Song, and Wei, it is called a wall-dwelling.
Guo commentary: It is the modern-day incense cage.
Guangya (Broad Refinement): A basket.
Records of the Grand Historian (Shiji) commentary: A fire-basket, used to cover a fire with a frame. Also, a basket for carrying objects on the back.
Leipian (Categorized Dictionary): A long container that is wide at the top and narrow at the bottom is called a basket frame.
Records of the Grand Historian (Shiji), Biographies of Jesters: Chunyu Kun said, "The person praying at the roadside field held one pig trotter and one bowl of wine, and prayed, 'May the baskets and containers be full.'"
Also in Leipian: Pronounced gou. A bamboo utensil.
Correct Rhymes (Zhengyun): Also written in a variant form.