Wu Collection, Upper Volume
Radical: Field (tián)
Male
Kangxi strokes: 7
Page 759, Entry 02
Collected Rhymes (Jiyun), Rhyme Meetings (Yunhui), and Correct Rhymes (Zhengyun): Pronounced nan.
Explaining Graphs and Analyzing Characters (Shuowen Jiezi): Refers to a husband or man. Composed of the radicals for field and power, signifying one who exerts strength in the fields.
White Tiger Hall Discussions (Baihu Tong): Male implies responsibility. Responsibility refers to merit and achievement.
Book of Changes (Yijing), Appended Statements (Xici): The way of Heaven forms the male.
Also a title of nobility. Record of Rites (Liji), Royal Regulations (Wangzhi): Duke, Marquis, Earl, Viscount, and Baron, in total five ranks.
Also a surname. Records of the Grand Historian (Shiji), Basic Annals of Xia (Xia Benji): Among his descendants is the Nan clan.
Also, in the Rhyme Supplements (Yunbu), pronounced ning.
Book of Odes (Shijing), Greater Odes (Daya): Lady Tai Si inherited a reputation for goodness, thus bearing one hundred sons.