Chou Collection, Lower Volume Radical: Woman (nǚ) Entry: qu Kangxi Stroke Count: 11 Page 263, Entry 30 Broad Rhymes (Guangyun): Pronounced qu (falling tone). Collected Rhymes (Jiyun) and Rhyme Collection (Yunhui): Pronounced qu (falling tone). According to the Explaining Graphs and Analyzing Characters (Shuowen): To take a wife. Hu Anding’s Family Instructions (Hu Anding Jiaxun): When marrying off a daughter, one must select a family superior to our own, so that the daughter will be cautious in serving her husband’s family. When taking a wife, one must select a family not as good as our own, so that she will be respectful in serving her parents-in-law. Also, Jiyun: Pronounced xu (level tone). A merchant marriage broker, a matchmaker. Also, pronounced xu (level tone). From Xunzi’s Poem of Anomalies (Xunqing Gui Shi): Luqu Zishe, having no matchmaker. Sometimes written in the variant form ju (level tone). Also, pronounced shu (level tone). Also, pronounced zou (level tone). A personal name. Wusun King Cenqu. In classical canons and histories, it is generally written using the character for take (qu).