Xu Collection, Lower Volume Radical: Page (yè) Page 907, Entry 19 Pronounced li (falling tone) Book of Rites (Liji), Book of Odes (Shijing), Rhyme Compilation (Yunhui), Correct Rhymes (Zhengyun), Tang Rhymes (Tangyun), Collection of Rhymes (Jiyun) Approaching Elegance (Erya): Indicates goodness. Book of Odes (Shijing), Greater Odes (Daya): Able to discern right from wrong, able to perform good deeds. Commentary (Jian): Goodness. Diligent in giving without selfishness is called good. Also: The filial heart of a filial son will not be exhausted; Heaven forever grants you goodness. Commentary (Zhuan): Goodness. Also: Jade Chapters (Yupian) indicates types or categories. Book of Changes (Yi), Qian Hexagram: The ten thousand things each follow their own category. Also: Attached Statements (Xici): Things are gathered according to category. Also refers to analogy or comparison. Book of Rites (Liji), Record of Learning (Xueji): Understanding analogy to comprehend the principles of things. Annotation (Zhu): Refers to understanding the analogy of the principles of things. Also: Black Robes (Ziyi): Confucius said: If a subordinate serving a superior is not upright himself, and his words are not trustworthy, then moral principles cannot be unified, and behavior will lack standards. Annotation (Zhu): Refers to standards that can be compared. Sub-commentary (Shu): If behavior has no constant standard, one cannot make an analogy. Also: Zuo Commentary (Zuo Zhuan), Ninth Year of Duke Xiang: The ruler of Jin appointed them according to their talents. Annotation (Zhu): According to their respective abilities. Also refers to being similar or like. Book of Rites (Liji), Summary of Propriety (Quli): After a feudal lord buries a former ruler, the audience with the Son of Heaven is called a category audience. Annotation (Zhu): The heir replaces the father to accept the state. Category is like a symbol. Carrying furs and silks, it symbolizes the ritual audience of a feudal lord. Also a name for a type of sacrifice. Classic of History (Shu), Canon of Shun (Shundian): Thus performed the category sacrifice to honor the Emperor on High. Book of Odes (Shijing), Greater Odes (Daya): Performed the category sacrifice, performed the war sacrifice. Rites of Zhou (Zhouli), Spring Officials (Chunguan), Master of Rituals (Sishi): Performed the category sacrifice to honor the Emperor on High. Zheng Annotation (Zheng Zhu): The rituals of the category sacrifice are conducted according to the rituals of the suburban sacrifice. Also: Approaching Elegance (Erya), Explaining Fish: A turtle whose head hangs low to the left without making a sound is called a category. Sub-commentary (Shu): Ni means low, without making a sound. It means that when walking, the head hangs low on the left, which is called a category. Also: Classic of Mountains and Seas (Shanhaijing): On Danhuan Mountain, there is a wild beast shaped like a civet cat with a mane, and its name is category. It possesses both female and male reproductive organs, and those who eat it will not feel jealousy. Also: Wings of Approaching Elegance (Eryayi) records two things called category; the strange category is the kind that possesses both male and female traits. It is the same as the character lei (a variant form). Also a state name. History of the Later Han (Hou Hanshu), Account of the Western Regions: There was the Pulei State. Also a surname. Records of the Grand Historian (Shiji), Hereditary House of Prince Xiao of Liang: Leihou revolted. Correct Characters (Zhengzitong): During the Song Dynasty there was Lei Yan, who was a district lieutenant in Ningde County, Fuzhou. Also: Collection of Rhymes (Jiyun) pronounced lei (falling tone), same sound as lei (a mound). Refers to being biased. Zuo Commentary (Zuo Zhuan), Sixteenth Year of Duke Zhao: There was something biased. Also: Collection of Rhymes (Jiyun) pronounced lü (falling tone), same sound as lü (a law). Refers to similarity. Cao Zhi, Seven Exhortations (Qi Qi): Beautiful plants and trees are planted in alternation, different species and strange categories. Green leaves and red flowers reflect the sky and shine upon the sun. Etymological Dictionary (Shuowen): Similar categories, only the dog is the most obvious. The character is formed with the radical for dog and the phonetic element lei.