Mao Collection, Middle Volume Radical: Hand (shǒu) Entry: Jun Kangxi stroke count: 23 Page 464, Entry 10 According to Collection of Rhymes (Jiyun), Rhyme Meetings (Yunhui), and Correct Rhymes (Zhengyun), pronounced jun (rising tone). According to Extensive Refinements (Boya), it means to take; sometimes written as jun. Also, according to Extensive Rhymes (Guangyun), Collection of Rhymes (Jiyun), and Rhyme Meetings (Yunhui), as well as Correct Rhymes (Zhengyun), pronounced jun; same as the variant form (kun). According to Discourses of the States (Luyu), to gather and steam, meaning to collect the essentials. According to the Old Book of Tang (Tangshu), in the Biography of Liu Jing, it is recorded that while compiling the new genealogy of the Yongtai era, an imperial decree ordered Jing to collect and gather the events following the Yongtai period and arrange them into the text.