Chou Collection, Lower Volume
Radical: Woman (nǚ)
Kangxi stroke count: 12
Page 266, Entry 37
Guangyun: Pronounced mei.
Jiyun, Yunhui: Pronounced mei.
Shuowen: To plan. To arrange the union of two surnames to complete a marriage.
Lushi: Nüwa assisted Fuxi, prayed to the spirits to oversee female affairs, regulated surnames, and established marriage rites; because of this, she is called the Divine Matchmaker.
Book of Odes (Shijing), Wei Wind: It is not that I have missed the appointed time, you simply lack a good matchmaker.
Book of Rites (Liji), Qu Li: If there is no go-between for a man and a woman, they should not know each other's names.
Rites of Zhou (Zhouli), Earth Official: The Official of Matchmakers oversees the unions of all the people.
Also, anything that comes about through a medium is called a matchmaker.
Wenzhongzi, Wei Xiang Pian: One who becomes angry upon hearing slander is the target of the slanderer. One who becomes happy upon hearing praise is the dupe of the flatterer.
Also, Dragon Matchmaker, a fine horse.
History of the Former Han Dynasty (Qian Hanshu), Treatises on Ritual and Music: Heavenly horses arrive as the matchmakers for dragons.
Du Fu poems: If there is someone who can purchase the bones of a fine horse, do not regret the scarcity of dragon matchmakers.
Also, the people of Qi call leaven cakes matchmaker.
History of the Former Han Dynasty (Qian Hanshu), Biography of Sima Qian: To ferment and brew his faults. Meng Kang says: Mei is yeast, Nie is leaven. It means to brew his crimes until they are formed.
Also, Jiyun, Zhengyun: Pronounced mei. Mei-mei, meaning confused and ignorant.
Zhuangzi, Zhi Bei You: Confused and ignorant, having no mind and unable to deliberate with others.
Also, Jiyun: Pronounced meng. Meaning the same.
Also, Pronounced mei. To be greedy.
Also, rhyming as shu.
Jiaoshi Yilin: Traveling on a muddy road with a broken cart, the ugly woman has no matchmaker. No one is suitable to be her mate, alone and distressed in her dwelling.
Also, rhyming as mou.
Lin, Zhi Yu Fu: On this night, of all nights, I alone lack this good matchmaker. The Milky Way is vast and shimmering, the heavenly waters are turbid and light flows.
