Hai Collection, Lower Volume. Radical: Turtle (guī). Character: guī. Kangxi strokes: 16. Page: 1537. Ancient form. Tang Rhymes (Tangyun): jū and zhuī combined. Collected Rhymes (Jiyun): jū and kuí combined. Rhyme Meeting (Yunhui): jū and wéi combined. Pronounced like guī. The head of the shelled creatures. Explaining Graphs and Analyzing Characters (Shuowen Jiezi): The turtle is a creature with bone on the outside and flesh on the inside. Jade Chapters (Yupian): Patterned; to advance. Bone on the outside and flesh on the inside; by nature it lacks males and takes the snake as its male mate. Erya (Erya), section Explaining Fish (Shiyu): Ten types of turtles: first, the divine turtle; second, the spiritual turtle; third, the grasping turtle; fourth, the precious turtle; fifth, the patterned turtle; sixth, the divination turtle; seventh, the mountain turtle; eighth, the marsh turtle; ninth, the water turtle; and tenth, the fire turtle. Also, Erya, section Explaining Fish: A turtle with three legs is called a bēn. Commentary (Shu): A three-legged turtle is named bēn. Also, Broadening the Refined (Guangya): Turtle shells and cowries are forms of currency. Book of Han (Hanshu), Treatise on Food and Money (Shihuozhi): For heavenly use, nothing is like the dragon; for earthly use, nothing is like the horse; for human use, nothing is like the turtle shell. Also the name of a star. Master Shi's Star Classic (Shishi Xingjing): The Heavenly Turtle consists of six stars, located in the Tail constellation south of the Milky Way. Also a place name. Spring and Autumn Annals (Chunqiu), twelfth year of Duke Huan: The Duke met with the Duke of Song at Gui. Du's Commentary (Duzhu): A location in the state of Song. Also the name of a mountain. Book of Odes (Shijing), Odes of Lu (Lusong): Possessing both Mount Gui and Mount Meng. Mao's Commentary (Maozhuan): Gui is a mountain. Zuo Commentary (Zuozhuan): The fields on the northern side of Mount Gui. The mountain is currently located in Sishui County, Yanzhou Prefecture, Shandong. Also refers to the ridge of the back. Zuo Commentary, twelfth year of Duke Xuan: To shoot an elk and hit the turtle. Du's Commentary: Li means to hit. It refers to the high, central ridge of a turtle's back. Also an official title. Rites of Zhou (Zhouli), Spring Officials (Chunguan), the Turtle Keeper (Guiren): In charge of the six types of turtles. Also turtle-eye, a wine vessel. Ritual Records (Liji), Section on the Hall of Distinction (Mingtangwei): The Zhou dynasty used the yellow-eye vessel; the cover was decorated with turtle-eye patterns, and currently the turtle-eye is yellow. Also, Broad Rhymes (Guangyun): jū and qiú combined, pronounced like jiū. Kucha (Qiūcí), the name of a kingdom in the Western Regions. Book of Han, Traditions of the Western Regions (Xiyuchuan): Kucha, pronounced as jiū cí. Also, Collected Rhymes and Rhyme Meeting: qū and yóu combined; Correct Rhymes (Zhengyun): qū and yóu combined. Pronounced like qiū. Kucha, a county name during the Han dynasty. Book of Han, Treatise on Geography (Dilizhi): Shangjun's Kucha was the seat of the regional commandant. Note: Ying Shao says the pronunciation is qiū cí. Yan Shigu says people from the kingdom of Kucha came to surrender and were settled here, hence the name. Note that for the gui in Kucha, there are two pronunciations: jiū and qiū. Also, Western Metropolis Rhapsody (Xijingfu) by Zhang Heng: Picking up purple cowries, grappling with aged turtles. Seizing water leopards, tethering submerged bulls. Note that here turtle also rhymes with yóu, not only in the name Kucha. Also, Collected Rhymes and Rhyme Meeting: jū and lún combined, pronounced like mǐ. Zhuangzi (Zhuangzi), section Enjoyment in Untroubled Ease (Xiaoyaoyou): There was a man from Song who excelled at making a medicine to prevent hands from chapping. For generations, his family had been engaged in bleaching silk. Note: Bu gui means to not become wrinkled or chapped from the cold. Phonic explanation: pronounced with the sounds jǔ and lún reversed. Also a rhyming pronunciation with yū and jū. Classic of Changes (Yijing), Hexagram Sun: Someone presents him with ten pairs of turtle shells. Wang Bao's Contract for a Youth (Tongyue): Tying nets to catch fish, catching wild geese with strings and hitting ducks with pellets. Climbing mountains to shoot deer, entering the water to spear turtles. Textual Criticism: For Erya, section Explaining Insects (Shichong): Ten types of turtles. One, the divine turtle; two, the spiritual turtle. Following the original text, Explaining Insects is corrected to Explaining Fish. For Erya, section Explaining Insects: A turtle with three legs is called a bēn. Following the original text, Explaining Insects is corrected to Explaining Fish.