觭

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Five Elements 0
Fortune
Radical
Simplified Strokes 15 strokes
Traditional Strokes 15 strokes

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Kangxi Dictionary

View Original Page 1143
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You Collection, Upper Volume Radical: Horn (jiǎo) Kangxi Strokes: 15 Page 1143, Entry 31 Tang Rhyme (Tang Yun): Pronounced qi (falling tone). Collected Rhymes (Jiyun) and Rhyme Collection (Yunhui): Pronounced qi (level tone). Erya: Explaining Domestic Animals (Erya: Shichu): If one horn points down and one points up, it is called qi. Commentary: When a bull's horns are one lowered and one raised, it is called qi, which means tilted or unbalanced. Also, Guang Rhyme (Guang Yun): Pronounced bi (rising tone). Collected Rhymes (Jiyun) and Rhyme Collection (Yunhui): Pronounced qi (rising tone). Correct Rhymes (Zhengyun): Pronounced bi (rising tone). Meaning is the same. Also, Collected Rhymes (Jiyun) and Rhyme Collection (Yunhui): Pronounced ji (level tone). To obtain. Rites of Zhou: Spring Officials (Zhouli: Chunguan): The Grand Diviner manages the methods of the three dreams, the second of which is the qi dream. Commentary: Refers to what is obtained from a dream; the Yin people practiced this. Zheng Kangcheng also reads this with a rising tone, equivalent to ji. Du Zichun reads it like the qi in qiwei (extraordinary/magnificent); qi is simply the character for extraordinary. Collected Rhymes (Jiyun): Sometimes written in a variant form (ji). Also means single. Book of Han: Records of the Five Phases (Qianhan: Wuxingzhi): When Jin defeated the Qin army, not a single horse or a single wheel returned. Commentary: A single wheel. Zhuangzi: Under Heaven Chapter (Zhuangzi: Tianxiapian): Responding with words that are singular, paired, and incompatible. Classified Chapters (Leipian): Citing Zhuangzi, also pronounced ji (falling tone).

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