Yin Collection, Upper Volume
Radical: Roof (bù)
Kangxi strokes: 9
Page 285, Entry 02
Tangyun, Jiyun, Yunhui, Zhengyun: Pronounced shi.
Shuowen: Means to fill. Composed of the roof radical and the character for arrive. Arrive indicates where one stops.
Kong Yingda: A general term for dwellings. Because they are vaulted on all four sides, they are called palace; because they are filled with possessions, they are called room. Room means full.
Book of Changes (Yijing): In ancient times, people lived in caves and resided in the wild; later sages changed this to live in palaces and rooms.
Book of Documents (Shangshu): Used to protect the royal house.
Book of Odes (Shijing): It is said that when the year changed, they entered these rooms to live.
Rites of Zhou (Zhouli): Dwellings within city walls are called rooms.
Ancestral temples are called grand rooms.
Rites of Zhou (Zhouli): The grand room of the Xia dynasty, the double-roofed houses of the Shang dynasty, the bright hall of the Zhou dynasty. Note: Grand room refers to an ancestral temple.
A husband calls his wife his room.
Book of Rites (Liji): At thirty one is called in his prime and has a wife.
Yingshi: Name of a star constellation.
Zhu Xi: When this star is in the center at dusk, it is the tenth month of the Xia calendar, when one may build rooms, hence it is called Yingshi.
Name of a mountain.
Records of the Grand Historian (Shiji): Mount Songgao has the Great Room and Small Room mountains; they are named for the stone rooms found upon them.
A grave.
Book of Odes (Shijing): After a hundred years, one returns to one's own grave.
A surname.
Zhengzitong: In the Song dynasty, there was a General of the Guard named Shizhong.
Jiyun, Yunhui: Pronounced shi.
Zhengyun: Pronounced shi.
Jiyun: Means to live.
Zuo Si: Looking into the golden archives to view the jade records, examining the maps and charts in the stone room. Investigating where the calendar resides, observing the location of the Five Virtues.
Also pronounced shuo.
Jiao's Yilin: At the end of the year, the flowers wither, and the yang energy enters the yin room. All things are hidden, and nothing can be found. Pronounced duo.
Editorial Note: Book of Changes (Yijing): Ancient people lived in caves and resided in the wild. The original text includes the character for and.
Editorial Note: The Records of Technical Skills: The Xia dynasty grand room, the Shang dynasty double-roofed house, the Zhou dynasty bright hall. The original text includes the character for clan after the Xia dynasty.