Mao Collection, Lower Volume Radical: Tap (pū) Kangxi Strokes: 15 Page 475, Entry 06 Pronounced shu. Shuowen Jiezi (Explanation of Simple and Compound Characters): To calculate. Book of Changes (Yijing): Those who calculate the past are compliant. Book of Odes (Shijing): My heart calculates it. Book of Rites (Liji): When asked about the wealth of the sovereign, one answers by calculating the land. Also, Guangya (Expanded Glossaries): To reproach. Zuo Tradition (Zuo Zhuan): He commanded the official to reproach him. Note: To count up his crimes. Also, pronounced suo. Same meaning. Pronounced shu. Mathematics. Qunjing Yinbian (Distinctions in Sounds of the Classics): To calculate how many there are is called shu. Leipian (Classified Dictionary): To enumerate. Book of Changes (Yijing): The superior man creates numbers and measures to discuss virtue and conduct. Note: Numbers and measures refer to the quantity of social status and etiquette. Also, Xici (Appended Remarks): To exhaust the numbers and know the future is called divination. Note: The numbers of the milfoil stalks. Book of Documents (Shujing): The calendar numbers of heaven reside in your person. Note: The numbers of the heavenly calendrical progression. Rites of Zhou (Zhouli): He oversees the norms of the officials to manage calculations. Note: Managing calculations refers to the differing quantities of each affair. History of the Later Han (Hou Hanshu): Lishou created mathematics. Note: Lishou was a minister of the Yellow Emperor. Pronounced shuo. Frequent. Book of Rites (Liji): Sacrifices should not be frequent; if they are frequent, they become tiresome. Erya (Approaching Elegance): Shu means rapid. Note: These all refer to being hurried and rapid. Pronounced su. Record of Music (Yueji): The sounds of Wei are rapid, hurried, and distress the spirit. Note: Qu-shu is read as cu-su, a phonetic error. Records of the Grand Historian (Shiji): Delaying the measure of time, he told me the duration. Note: Xu Guang says: Shu means fast. Pronounced cu. Fine; closely woven. Mencius: A fine-meshed net does not enter the stagnant pools. Note: A dense and fine net. Pronounced xuan. Shu-shu, meaning eager or industrious. Pronounced song (entering tone). To draw water rapidly. Zhuangzi: Rushing like boiling water. Pronounced suo. Shu-shu, the feeling of being hurried and forced. Pronounced zhuo. To hurry. Also, rhymes with zou. Lu Ji, Poem on the Xuanyou Hall: Devoutly was our sovereign born, able, brilliant, and talented. His body shines with double glory, carrying on the regulations of the majestic numbers.