You Collection, Upper Volume Radical: Speech (yán) 譬 Kangxi strokes: 20 Page 1183, Entry 16 Pronounced pi (falling tone). Shuowen Jiezi (Shuowen): To explain. Xu says: Similar to to match. Matching things to explain them. Book of Odes (Shijing), Greater Odes: To take an analogy that is not far-fetched. Book of Rites (Liji), Record on the Subject of Education: Rarely use analogies but still be understood. Commentary: Words used for comparison. History of the Later Han (Hou Hanshu), Biography of Diwu Zhong: Yu requested to stay and persuade him to surrender. Commentary: Persuade, to enlighten. Also, to understand. History of the Later Han (Hou Hanshu), Biography of Bao Yong: Although those who spoke were cautious, those who heard did not understand. Also, in the Collected Rhymes (Jiyun), sometimes written as a variant form (pi). Book of Odes (Shijing), Lesser Odes: Like a boat drifting. Annotation: Originally also written as a variant form (pi). Mencius: It is like digging a well. Textual research: Book of Rites (Liji), Record on the Subject of Education: Rarely use analogies but still be understood. The commentary originally said words of the north. Corrected based on original text: changed to analogies; changed north to comparison.