You Collection, Upper Volume
Radical: Speech (yán)
Kangxi Strokes: 15
Page 1168, Entry 01
Pronounced liang (falling tone)
Pronounced liang (falling tone)
Shuowen Jiezi (Explanation of Words and Phrases): Faithfulness.
Book of Odes (Shijing), Lesser Odes: Truly you do not know me. Zheng commentary: Faithfulness. Zhu commentary: Sincerity.
Book of Rites (Liji), Inner Chapters: Requesting to practice faithfulness. Commentary: Speech that is faithful and true.
Also refers to small faith. Analects (Lunyu): How can it be compared to the faithfulness of a common man or woman?
Also, Yangzi Fangyan (Dialect Dictionary): The compound nuan-liang means to know.
Guangya (Broad Encyclopedia): Wisdom.
Yupian (Jade Chapters): To assist, to help.
Guangyun (Broad Rhymes): To assist.
Zheng Yun (Correct Rhymes): To examine or observe.
Also the name of a barbarian prefecture. Book of Tang (Tangshu), Treatise on Geography: In the Lingnan Circuit, there is Liang Prefecture.
Also a surname. Liang Yi appears in Strategies of the Warring States (Zhanguo Ce). Liang Fu appears in the Book of the Later Han (Houhanshu), Biographies of Men of Exemplary Conduct.
Also, in the Jiyun (Collected Rhymes), sometimes written as liang. Erya (Approaching Elegance), Interpretation of Words: Liang means faithfulness. Commentary: The Fangyan states that great faithfulness is called liang. This is the language of Zhou Nan, Zhao Nan, and Wei. Book of Odes (Shijing), Odes of Yong: You do not consider others. Commentary: Liang means faithfulness. Originally also written as liang.
Also used interchangeably with liang (cool). Book of Odes (Shijing), Greater Odes: Assisting that King Wu. Commentary: Liang means to assist. Originally also written as liang.
Also sometimes written as jing. Book of Rites (Liji), Suburban Sacrificial Rituals: The meaning of beng is jing. Commentary: Jing means to search for. Sometimes written as liang.
Also, in the Jiyun (Collected Rhymes) and Leipian (Classified Chapters), pronounced liang (level tone). It is the same as liang. Faithfulness.
Also used interchangeably with liang (good). Book of Rites (Liji), Record of Music: An easy, straightforward, kind, and faithful heart. Commentary: Zhuzi reads this as kind and good.
