You Collection, Lower Volume
Radical: Foot (zú)
Jue
Kangxi stroke count: 19
Page 1234, Entry 01
Text from Five Classics Characters (Wujing wenzi): Jue is also written as jue.
Zuo Tradition (Zuozhuan), Nineteenth Year of Duke Xiang: This is called shaking its root.
Records of the Grand Historian (Shiji), Biography of Bian Que: Suddenly becoming unconscious.
Commentary: The vital energy unexpectedly rises from the lower body, reaching outward to the heart and rib-cage area.
Master Lu's Spring and Autumn Annals (Lvshi chunqiu): When it occurs in the feet, it becomes atrophy, becoming jue disease.
Commentary: Jue is a condition of disordered and rapid internal turbulence.
Textual Research: Zuo Tradition (Zuozhuan), Nineteenth Year of Duke Xiang, states: This is called shaking its root. I have strictly followed the original text to correct the character for wood to the character for root.