Zi Collection, Page Position: Lower
Radical: Again (yòu)
Character: 叏
Kangxi Stroke Count: 5
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Pronounced guai.
Tang Dynasty Rhyme Dictionary (Tangyun): Pronounced guai (falling tone); Collected Rhymes (Jiyun) and Rhyme Collection (Yunhui): Pronounced guai (falling tone); Correct Rhyme Dictionary (Zhengyun): Pronounced guai (falling tone).
Explanation of Graphs and Analysis of Characters (Shuowen): To divide.
Book of Changes (Yijing): In the section on the Judgments of the hexagram, it states that this character means to decide, signifying the decisive judgment of the firm and the yielding.
Also, Collected Rhymes (Jiyun) and Rhyme Collection (Yunhui): Pronounced jue (rising tone).
Collected Rhymes (Jiyun): An implement used for releasing a bowstring.
Rhyme Collection (Yunhui): In the Book of Odes (Shijing), the word corresponds to the picking up of arrows.
Note: Originally written as this character; in modern texts, it is written as a character meaning to decide. The term for the equipment on the arm that releases the string is called a guard, and the one who picks up arrows is called a picker.
Collected Rhymes (Jiyun): Sometimes also written in a variant form.