Shen Collection, Lower Volume Radical: Blood (xuè) Kangxi Strokes: 10 Page 1107, Entry 09 Pronounced niǔ. Shuowen Jiezi (Explaining Graphs and Analyzing Characters) states: Bleeding from the nose. Su Wen (Basic Questions): Nasal bleeding. Additionally, if the spleen transfers to the liver, it will cause terrifying nosebleeds. Also, Guangyun (Broad Rhymes): To be defeated or frustrated. Gangmu Jilan (Comprehensive Review of the Comprehensive Mirror in Aid of Governance): A defeat in battle is called niǔ. Cao Zhi, Request to Prove Myself: A minor military defeat. Fengsu Tong (Comprehensive Treatise on Customs): Furthermore, there are powerful armies and excellent strategies, one after another, yet there are repeated defeats. Also, Records of the Three Kingdoms (Weizhi), commentary by Pei Songzhi: Jiao Xian fled to the region between the rivers. Someone privately asked him how the current campaign against the Wu state was going. Jiao Xian would not answer, but sang incoherently: Zhu niǔ, zhu niǔ, it is not fish nor is it meat, chasing one another. Also, Jiyun (Collected Rhymes): Pronounced ròu. The meaning is the same. Sometimes written as a variant form, commonly written as a simplified form.