Wu Collection, Upper Volume
Radical: Jade (yù)
珩
Kangxi strokes: 11
Page 731, Entry 14
Pronounced háng.
According to the Explaining Graphs and Analyzing Characters (Shuowen Jiezi), it is the upper jade of a pendant, used to regulate movements.
According to the Correct Rhymes (Zhengyun), it is the upper pendant piece, with a curved piece below.
Book of Odes (Shijing), Zheng Airs: Miscellaneous pendants to be given as gifts, Commentary: Miscellaneous pendants include pieces such as the heng, huang, ju, yu, and chongya.
Explication of the Text (Shiwen): Heng is a pendant, the upper jade.
It is also written in the variant form heng.
Book of Rites (Liji), Jade Precepts (Yuzao): With a first-rank dark skirt and a deep-colored heng. Commentary: The heng of the pendant, the jade heng.
Also, Zhang Heng, Eastern Capital Rhapsody (Dongjing Fu): Heng, pendant cords, and ribbons. Commentary: Pronounced háng. Du Yu states: The heng is that which maintains the cap.
Also, a name. Lu Ji, Treatise on the Fall of Wu (Bianwang Lun): Serving as an envoy, Zhao Zi and Shen Heng.
Also, in the Rhyme Supplement (Yunbu), rhymed with háng. Zhang Heng, Rhapsody on Thinking (Si Fu): Braiding integrity and brightness to make a girdle, mixing skills and arts to make a heng. Illustrating the splendor of refinement with carving and polishing, the huang is deep and distant, and ever lengthening.