Zi Collection, Page Position: Lower. Radical: Eight (bā). Six. Kangxi Stroke Count: 4. Page 127, Number 01. Tang Dynasty Rhymes (Tangyun), Collected Rhymes (Jiyun), and Rhyme Collection (Yunhui) provide the fanqie pronunciation using components li and zhu. Correct Rhymes (Zhengyun) provides the fanqie pronunciation using components lu and gu. Pronounced the same as lu. Explaining Writing and Analyzing Characters (Shuowen Jiezi) states: A number from the Book of Changes (Yijing); the yin principle changes at six and is finalized at eight. Jade Chapters (Yupian) states: A number. Supplemented Rhymes (Zengyun) states: Three groups of two make six; it is the number of old yin. Also the name of a state. Commentary of Zuo (Zuo Zhuan), the fifth year of Duke Wen: The people of Chu destroyed the state of Liu. Records of the Grand Historian (Shiji), Biography of Qing Bu: Bu was a person from Liu. The Seeking the Obscure (Suoyin) annotation states: The Treatise on Geography (Dilizhi) says Lujiang has a Liu County. Su Lin states: This is now known as Lu'an. Also used as a rhyming variant with a fanqie pronunciation using components lu and zhi, with a sound close to li. Book of Han (Hanshu), Memoir on the Western Regions: Governing the walled cities, thirty and six. They presented their tributes, each according to their duties.
