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.