Shen Collection, Lower Volume
Radical: Walk (xíng)
術
Kangxi strokes: 11
Page 1109, Entry 12
Tang Rhymes (Tangyun), Collected Rhymes (Jiyun), and Dictionary of Rhymes (Yunhui): Pronounced shu.
Guangyun: Refers to technique or skill.
Record of Distinguished Persons (Renwuzhi): If one’s thinking can reach the natural creation, and one's strategies and plans are wondrous, this is a practitioner of skills.
Also refers to intent or state of mind.
Commentary on the Book of Han (Hanshu Zhu): Shigu explains that it is a road or path, a place through which the mind passes.
Book of Rites (Liji), Record of Music (Yueji): The state of the mind is manifested within it.
Also refers to methods or principles.
Annals of Yanzi (Yanzi), Miscellaneous Lower Chapter: Words have elegance and order; methods have systems and organization.
Also refers to a profession or field of study.
Book of Rites (Liji), Conduct of the Scholars (Ruxing): Researching principles of righteousness, with shared academic pursuits.
Also, according to the Explaining Graphs (Shuowen): Refers to roads within a city.
Guanzi, Measuring the Land (Dudi): One hundred households constitute a li, ten li constitute a shu, and ten shu constitute a zhou.
The Rhapsody on the Capital of Shu (Shudu Fu) by Zuo Si: There are also magnificent residences facing the grand avenues and paths.
Also, according to the Bowya: Refers to tracks or traces.
Also, interchangeable with the character meaning to narrate (shù).
Book of Rites (Liji), Meaning of Sacrifice (Jiyi): Condensed in the heart, manifested in the expression, and thus narrated and examined.
Commentary: The character should be read as the one meaning to narrate.
Also, interchangeable with the character for the Shu River (shù).
Records of the Grand Historian (Shiji), Table of Marquises Since the Jianyuan Era: Marquis of Shuyang, Jiande.
Explaining the Hidden (Suoyin): Located in Xiapi.
Also, according to Collected Rhymes (Jiyun): Pronounced sui. Refers to land outside the six townships. One theory states it refers to roads, functioning as the character for a path (suì).
Book of Rites (Liji), Record of Learning (Xueji): A sui has its school (xu).
Commentary: The character should be read as the one meaning a path.
Rites of Zhou (Zhouli), Offices of Earth (Diguan): Twelve thousand five hundred households constitute one sui.
Textual research: In the Records of the Grand Historian, Table of Marquises Since the Jianyuan Era, it is the Marquis of Shuyang, Jiande. Corrected according to the original text of the Records of the Grand Historian, Table of Marquises Since the Jianyuan Era.