Mao Collection, Upper Volume Radical: Heart (xīn) Character: nǜ Kangxi stroke count: 10 Page 385, Entry 08 Tang Rhyme (Tangyun), Collection Rhymes (Jiyun), Rhyme Meetings (Yunhui), Correct Rhymes (Zhengyun): Pronounced niǔ. Explanatory Note (Shuowen): Ashamed. Composed of the heart radical and the phonetic component representing sound. Xu says: The heart feels broken and discouraged. Small Book of Etymological Glosses (Xiao Erya): A heart feeling ashamed is called nǜ. Master Yang: Regional Dialects (Fangyan): In the regions east and west of the mountains, to be personally ashamed is called nǜ. Also pronounced nì. Zhang Heng: Rhyme-prose on Thinking (Si Fu): I am cautious morning and night as if facing danger, to examine my errors. If my inner nature is upright and straight, there is no one who does not know me and I feel no shame. Also written in a variant form (niǔ). Essence of the Six Writings (Liushu Jingyun): Composed of the phonetic component for hair-cutting and the heart radical. It signifies the feeling of shame in the heart while having the head shaved.