Mao Collection, Middle Volume Radical: Hand (shǒu) Kangxi stroke count: 9 Page 425, Entry 12 Pronounced ju. Tang Dynasty Rhymes (Tangyun): To defend. Expanded Rhymes (Zengyun): To resist. Analects (Lunyu): If it is not permissible, then resist it. Xunzi: Internally to strengthen the city walls, externally to resist hardships. Also interchangeable with the character meaning to distance or keep apart. Broad Rhymes (Guangyun): To obstruct, to oppose. Jade Chapters (Yupian): To strike against. Ceremonial and Ritual (Yili): The long parts all reach the stand support (ju). Commentary: The character ju should be read as the ju in the sense of a distance. It refers to the mid-section of the leg bone on the sacrificial stand, acting as a cross-brace. Pronounced ju. Also meaning to defend. Pronounced ju. Square. Zuo Tradition (Zuozhuan): The Zheng official Ziyuan requested to form the left flank (ju) to face the people of Cai and Wei, and to form the right flank to face the others. Rites of Zhou (Zhouli): The White Emperor of the West is known as Baizhaoju.