Xu Collection, Upper Volume
Radical: Metal (jīn)
Kangxi Strokes: 15
Page 1307, Entry 20
Guangyun: Pronounced hua
Yunhui, Zhengyun: Pronounced hua
Shuowen: Originally written as an variant form. A spade with two blades.
Guangyun: A hoe or spade.
Biography of Virtuous Men in the Book of the Later Han (Hou Hanshu): Dai Jiu was interrogated and tortured; they heated a spade-axe and forced him to hold it in his armpits.
Annotation: A spade-axe is a tool for digging.
Jiyun: Sometimes also written as a variant form (hua).
Jiyun: Pronounced hu. A plasterer's trowel. A tool for wall plasterers. Sometimes also written as a variant form (hua).
Guangyun: Pronounced wu
Jiyun, Yunhui, Zhengyun: Pronounced wu
Kunwu, the name of a mountain. It produces metal that can be used to make knives to cut jade.
Book of Liezi (Liezi): Written as Kunyu.
Rhapsody on Sir Fantasy (Zixu fu) by Sima Xiangru: Written as Kunwu.
Textual Research:
Kunwu, the name of a mountain. It produces metal that can be used to make knives to cut jade. Book of Liezi (Liezi), Yin Tang chapter: written as Kunyu. Corrected to Tang Wen chapter according to the original text.