Wei Collection, Middle Volume
Radical: Silk (mì)
糾
Kangxi Strokes: 8
Page 915, Entry 03
Pronounced jiu (falling tone).
Shuowen Jiezi (Explanation of Words and Phrases): Three ropes twisted together.
Records of the Grand Historian (Shiji), Biography of Jia Yi: How is this different from tangled ropes? Commentary: Tongsu Wen (Common Language) states that twisted ropes are called jiu.
Also, from Guangya (Broad Refinements): To lift up.
Book of Documents (Shujing), Jiongming: To restrain transgressions and correct errors. Commentary: Jiu means to expose or lift up one's mistakes.
Zuo Zhuan, Year 6 of Duke Zhao: Regulate them through administration. Commentary: Jiu means to lift up or expose.
Rites of Zhou (Zhouli), Offices of Heaven, Grand Administrator: To regulate the ten thousand people. Commentary: Jiu means to examine.
Also, Minor Administrator: Concerning all the prohibitions of the palace. Commentary: Jiu means to cut or to examine.
Book of Odes (Shijing), Odes of Wei: The winding, twisting hemp sandals. Commentary: Means to wrap around. Commentary: Refers to a loose and airy appearance.
Book of the Later Han (Hou Hanshu), Biography of Gongsun Zan: To gather people together. Commentary: Jiu means to collect.
Book of the Later Han (Hou Hanshu), Biography of Xun Yu: To collect those who are separated and gather those who are scattered. Commentary: Jiu means to join together.
Also, Yupian (Jade Chapters): To report.
Guangyun (Broad Rhymes): To supervise, to investigate, to be urgent, to be perverse.
Also, Jiyun (Collected Rhymes): Pronounced jiao.
Book of Odes (Shijing), Odes of Chen: Graceful and winding. Commentary: Yaojiu refers to a relaxed and graceful posture.
Also, Zhengyun (Correct Rhymes): Pronounced jiu. The meaning is the same.
Also, Yunbu (Rhyme Supplements): Rhymes with you; to knot.
Xi Kang, Rhapsody on the Zither (Qinfu): Bubbling and surging, coiling like snakes. Flowing like a great river, reaching the central region.
Zhengzitong (Comprehensive Compilation of Characters): The common form using the dou radical to write it as 紏 is incorrect. According to Shuowen Jiezi, jiu originally belonged to the jiu radical, but it has now been merged into this radical.
