Chen Collection, Lower Volume Radical: Lack (qiàn) Kangxi Strokes: 11 Page 568, Entry 03 Broad Rimes (Guangyun): Pronounced shuo. Collected Rimes (Jiyun) and Rhyme Collection (Yunhui): Pronounced shuo. Explaining Graphs and Analyzing Characters (Shuowen): To suck or slurp. Common Text (Tongsuwen): To hold in the mouth and suck. Poem by Han Yu: Pouring wine to drink together. Also signifies adhering to something. Huainan Masters (Huainanzi), Chapter on Training in Affairs (Xiuwu Xun): To quench with frost and dew, to suck and draw in. Collected Rimes (Jiyun): Sometimes written as variant forms. Also, Collected Rimes (Jiyun): Pronounced suo. Also, Pronounced su. The meaning is the same. Also, Broad Rimes (Guangyun): Pronounced shu. Collected Rimes (Jiyun): Pronounced shu. Refers to air rushing upward or against the flow. One interpretation identifies this as coughing. It is identical to the character for cough. Rites of Zhou (Zhouli), Offices of Heaven (Tianguan), Physicians of Disease (Jiyi): In winter, there is coughing and upward-rushing air sickness. Commentary: Coughing is also written as this character. Sub-commentary: Refers to air rushing and labored breathing.