Wu Collection, Upper Volume Radical: Sweet (gān) Kangxi strokes: 9 Page 754, Entry 06 Ancient character form Tang Rhymes (Tangyun), Collected Rhymes (Jiyun), Dictionary of Rhymes (Yunhui), Correct Rhymes (Zhengyun): Pronounced ren (falling tone). Shuowen Jiezi (Shuowen): Especially peaceful and happy. Guangyun: Extraordinary or excessive. Dictionary of Rhymes (Yunhui): Very, deep. Book of Changes (Yijing), Appended Remarks (Xici): Its principles are vast, and all things are not abandoned. Book of Odes (Shijing), Lesser Odes of the Kingdom (Xiaoya): That slanderer has already gone too far. Huainanzi, Treatise on Diligence (Xiuwuxun): Judging by this, the sages worry deeply for the common people. Also pronounced ren (rising tone). Meaning is the same. Pan Yue, Poem on the Guanzhong Region (Guanzhong shi): The monarch worries about the toil of the ministers, who would not be awestruck and fearful? Ashamed of having offered no counsel, to hold a position idly is excessive. Rhymes with qin and ren.