Xu Collection, Upper Volume Radical: Metal (jīn) Character: Shuo Kangxi Dictionary Stroke Count: 23 Page 1326, Entry 01 Pronounced shuo Shuo Wen Jie Zi (Explaining Graphs and Analyzing Characters): To melt. Mencius (Mengzi): It is not that it is melted into me from the outside. Records of the Grand Historian (Shiji), Biography of Zhang Yi: The mouths of the multitude can melt metal. Also, Er Ya (Approaching Elegance), Explanations of Ancient Terms: Beautiful. Book of Odes (Shijing), Zhou Songs (Zhousong): Ah, the beautiful royal army. Commentary: Shuo means beautiful. Records of the Grand Historian (Shiji), Biography of Li Si: Melting one hundred yi of gold. Commentary: The Suoyin commentary says: Shuo means beautiful. Also, Yang Xiong, Dialects (Fangyan): To rub. Also, Book of the Later Han (Hou Hanshu), Biography of Ma Yuan: How spirited and robust is this old man. Commentary: Jue-shuo refers to a courageous appearance. It also refers to having attractive eyes. Yang Xiong, Dialects (Fangyan): In the regions of Song, Wei, Han, and Zheng, it is called shuo. Commentary: It refers to being bright and luminous. Also, He Yan, Rhapsody on the Jingfu Hall (Jingfu Dian Fu): Therefore, the ornate pillars are bright and shimmering. Commentary: All these refer to being radiant, bright, and clearly manifest. Also, Jyun (Collection of Rhymes): Sometimes written as yao. History of the Former Han (Qian Hanshu), Treatise on Literature and Arts (Yiwenzhi): To heat metal to make a blade. Also, Jyun (Collection of Rhymes): Pronounced yao. To brand. Zhuangzi, Section on Rifling Trunks (Quqie): To burn off the strings of the reed pipe and the zither. Also, another definition is to melt. Also, Jyun (Collection of Rhymes): Pronounced li. A type of tripod vessel. Originally written as the character with the same radical.