Wu Collection, Lower Volume
Radical: Stand (lì)
Kangxi Strokes: 19
Page 873, Entry 01
Guangyun: Pronounced jing (falling tone)
Jiyun, Yunhui: Pronounced jing (falling tone)
Zhengyun: Pronounced ju (falling tone)
Sound is jing (falling tone). Strong.
Book of Documents (Shujing), Established Government: Thus there are families that are greatly competitive.
Erya, Explanation of Words: Jing means strong.
Zuo Tradition (Zuozhuan), Seventh Year of Duke Xi: If the heart is not strong, why fear illness?
Also, to contend, to chase, to be high, to be urgent.
Book of Odes (Shijing), Eulogies of Shang: Not competitive, not urgent.
Commentary: Jing means to chase.
Zuo Tradition, Tenth Year of Duke Xiang: Will Zheng have a disaster? The military competition is already excessive.
Commentary: This means contention.
Twenty-third Year of Duke Ai: My humble state has affairs regarding the altars of the soil and grain, causing Fei and those with positions to compete there.
Commentary: Jing means urgent.
Also, Zengyun: Flourishing.
Zuo Tradition, Third Year of Duke Zhao: The two kindnesses are both flourishing.
Also, Jiyun: Sometimes written in a variant form. Also written in a variant form (jing).
Rites of Zhou (Zhouli), Officers of Spring, Bell Master, Commentary: To restrain and hold fast.
Yunhui Supplement: Also written as (jing).
Kaiyuan Five Classics Text: Mao Poetry: Hold the heart without being urgent.
Also borrowed as the term for boundary (jing).
Qin Curses on Chu Text: Raising troops and flourishing armies to press against the border.
Also rhyming with liang (level tone).
Yellow Court Classic (Huangtingjing): The soul and spirit keep watch internally without competition, the spirit is born in the belly holding a jade ladle.
Also rhyming with liang (rising tone).
Book of Odes, Greater Odes: There is no place to stop and hesitate, saying where can one go? The noble man indeed holds his heart without competition.
Commonly written in a variant form.
Textual Research:
Zuo Tradition, Tenth Year of Duke Xiang: Will Zheng have a disaster? The military competition is already excessive. According to the original text, the character for have has been added before disaster.
Also: Duke Kang of Ji said, my humble state has affairs regarding the altars of the soil and grain, causing Fei and those with positions to compete there. Note: This belongs to the text of the Twenty-third Year of Duke Ai. I have changed the five characters for Also Duke Kang of Ji said to Twenty-third Year of Duke Ai, and added the character for have before position.
