You Collection, Middle Volume Radical: Run (zǒu) Page 1219, Entry 17 Guangyun: Pronounced qu (level tone) Jiyun, Yunhui, Zhengyun: Pronounced qu (level tone) Shuowen: To run. Boya: To walk. Shiming: Rapid walking is called qu. Qu means to hurry; to hurry toward one's destination. Book of Odes (Shijing), Odes of Qi: Skillfully hurrying and with measured steps. Subcommentary: Qu is what we call a fast-paced walk today. Book of Rites (Liji), Qu Li: Do not hurry outside the curtains and screens. Commentary: Walking while extending the feet is called qu. Erya: The space outside the gate is called a qu. Gujin Zhu: The Wu Qu Xing is a song with which the people of Wu praise their land. Lu Ji's Wu Qu Xing states: Listen to my song of Wu Qu. Qu means a step. Also, the name of a tree. Qimin Yaoshu: For various other trees, the ear-fungus and the tree each have their own season. Jiyun: Pronounced cu (entering tone). Same as cu (hasty). Book of Rites (Liji), Yue Ji: The music of Wei is hurried, frequent, and disturbs the mind. Commentary: Hurried and frequent, read as cu (hasty/fast). Jiyi: One's gait should be hurried and frequent. Book of Han, Annals of Emperor Gao: Order the hastening of the melting of the seals. Commentary: Shigu states: Read as cu (hasty). Cu means fast. Also same as qu (to urge/hasten). Book of Rites (Liji), Yueling: Then order the officials to urge the people to complete the harvest. Exegesis: Originally also written as qu; pronounced cu. Records of the Grand Historian (Shiji), Treatise on the Celestial Offices: That which urges and moves forward is called ying. Commentary: Suoyin states: Pronounced ju (falling tone); it means to urge or hasten. Jiyun: Pronounced qu (falling tone). Fast walking. Also pronounced gou (level tone). Qu ma (equerry), sometimes written as qu ma. Jiyun and Leipian: Pronounced qu (falling tone). To walk, to be fast. Book of Odes (Shijing), Odes of Qi: Skillfully hurrying and with measured steps. Exegesis: Also pronounced qu (falling tone). Yunbu: Rhymes with you (level tone). Yilin: Carriages speed and people hurry; folding their armor, they become enemies. Wujing Wenzi: The character follows chu; those who write it with a duo component are in error. Guangyun: Popularly written as chu. Chu was originally pronounced chi (level tone). Jiyun: Sometimes written as.