Zi Collection, Page Position: Upper
Radical: Lid (tóu)
Entry: 6
Page 88, Entry 06
Ancient character form.
Pronounced jiao.
Small Dictionary of Refined Terms (Xiao Erya): Together.
Broad Rhymes (Guangyun): Shared, united.
Book of Changes (Yijing), Tai Hexagram: When the upper and lower interact, their will is one.
Also, to associate with.
Book of Changes (Yijing), Appended Statements (Xici): To interact with superiors without flattery, and with inferiors without irreverence.
Book of Rites (Liji), Special Meaning of the Suburban Sacrifice (Jiao Tesheng): A minister should not have external associations, for he dares not serve two lords.
Also, jiaojiao, the appearance of birds in flight.
Book of Odes (Shijing), Odes of Qin (Qin Feng): The yellow birds fly back and forth.
Also, jiaojia, to interweave or intermingle.
History of the Former Han Dynasty (Qianhan Shu), Biography of Liu Xiang: Documents were piled up at the public carriage office.
Also, name of a province, territory of Nanyue, established by the Han as Jiao Province.
Classic of History (Shujing), Canon of Yao (Yaodian): He specially ordered Xi Shu to reside at the southern frontier.
Cai Commentary (Cai Zhuan): Southern frontier refers to the region of Jiaozhi in the south.
Also, the collar of a garment.
Master Yang’s Dialect (Yangzi Fangyan): A collar is called a jiao.
Also, same as a dragon (jiao).
History of the Former Han Dynasty (Qianhan Shu), Annals of Emperor Gao: Then he saw a dragon above.
Records of the Grand Historian (Shiji) uses the character for dragon (jiao).
Also, same as a river bird (jiao).
Sima Xiangru, Rhapsody on the Imperial Park (Shanglin Fu): The river bird with swirling eyes. This refers to the pond heron.
Textual correction: Master Yang’s Dialect (Yangzi Fangyan) states a collar is called a jiao. Corrected according to the original text.