Chen Collection, Middle Volume. Radical: Tree (mù). Kangxi stroke count: 10. Page 525, Entry 01.
Collected Rhymes (Jiyun), Categorized Compilation (Leipian), Rhyme Treasury (Yunhui), Correct Rhymes (Zhengyun): Pronounced heng.
Jade Chapters (Yupian): Roof heng refers to a horizontal timber in a roof. Also, a funeral implement.
Book of Etiquette and Ceremonial (Yili): All are wooden heng for a long time. Note: Long should be written as cauterize, which refers to a cover. It refers to items such as woven bamboo baskets, small jars, and large jars, which are sealed at the opening with a wooden heng.
Tang Rhymes (Tangyun): Pronounced hang. Collected Rhymes (Jiyun), Rhyme Treasury (Yunhui): Pronounced hang. Correct Rhymes (Zhengyun): Pronounced hang. Refers to stocks (a wooden device used to restrain prisoners). Categorized Compilation (Leipian): When wood is placed at the feet it is called a cangue; a large cangue is called a heng.
Zhuangzi: Stocks and cangues pushing against one another, prisons facing one another.
Also the same as hang. Refers to a floating bridge. Book of Jin (Jinshu): Qiao attacked Wang Dun and burned the Zhuque Bridge (heng) to blunt his offensive.
Collected Rhymes (Jiyun), Correct Rhymes (Zhengyun): Pronounced hang (falling-rising tone). Rhyme Treasury (Yunhui): Pronounced hang (falling-rising tone). Refers to a clothes rack. Ancient Music Bureau (Guyuefu): Looking back at the rack (heng), there were no hanging clothes.
Textual Research: Book of Etiquette and Ceremonial (Yili): All are wooden heng for a long time. Note: Long should be written as cauterize, which refers to a cover. We have corrected the original text to read cauterize.