Yin Collection, Upper Volume
Radical: Roof (bù)
宍
Kangxi stroke count: 7
Page 282, Entry 18
Collected Rhymes (Jiyun): This is the ancient form of the character for meat.
Comprehensive Refinements (Tongya): Originally written as the following character.
Huainan Masters (Huainanzi), Original Way Teachings (Yuan Dao Xun): If the desire for meat is absent from within, one may follow a starving tiger by the tail.
Commentary: The desire for meat refers to self-attachment to one's own body. The character here is the ancient form of the character for meat. According to the Great Dark (Taixuan), the number is five; five represents earth, which represents food, which represents meat. Records of Wu and Yue (Wuyue Chunqiu), Ancient Filial Son, Ballad of the Pellet (Tangé): Cut the bamboo, join the bamboo, fly the clay, pursue the meat. Composed of the roof radical and the number six.