You Collection, Middle Volume Radical: Bean (dòu) Kangxi Strokes: 15 Page 1192, Entry 22 Tang Rhymes (Tangyun): Pronounced shu (falling tone). Collected Rhymes (Jiyun), Rhyme Meetings (Yunhui): Pronounced shu (rising tone). Shuowen Jiezi: To stand upright. Xu says: It refers to a bean-shaped vessel, therefore it implies standing upright. Annals of the Later Han (Hou Hanshu): The locust tree pulled itself up and stood inverted. Records of the Three Kingdoms (Weizhi): To raise what is lying down to a standing position. Rhyme Meetings (Yunhui): Upright. Dictionary of Characters (Zihui): Straight. Guangyun: A young servant who has not yet reached adulthood (has not put on the cap). Liezi: The neighbor lost a sheep and requested that Yangzi’s servant chase after it. Book of Song (Songshu): Servants and slave boys have no fixed rank. Also refers to minor officials of the inner court. Rites of Zhou (Zhouli): The inner servant manages the communication of orders between the inside and outside, overseeing all minor matters. Annotation: Shu is the title for officials who have not yet reached adulthood. Zuo Tradition (Zuozhuan): The Jin marquis’s servant Tou Xu was the keeper of the treasury. Annotation: Shu refers to a minor attendant or official. Also used to describe someone vulgar or base. Records of the Grand Historian (Shiji): This base Confucian scholar nearly ruined my affairs. Book of Jin (Jinshu): In an age without heroes, a young punk has made a name for himself. Also a surname. Zuo Tradition (Zuozhuan): The Zheng official Shu Fu. Rhyme Meetings (Yunhui): Also written in a variant form (duan). Records of the Grand Historian (Shiji): For those who are cold, short jackets are advantageous. Annotation: One version writes it as duan, another as shu. It refers to garments made in a vertical cut for laborers, which are short and narrow, hence called short jackets, also known as shu jackets. Xunzi: Wearing coarse, short garments that are not complete. Annotation: The garment of a servant, also a short garment. Collected Rhymes (Jiyun): Sometimes written as a variant. Correct Rhymes (Zhengyun), Supplement to the Dictionary (Zihuibu): Pronounced shu (falling tone). Comprehensive Mirror (Tongjian): Pang Juan said: It has ended up making a name for this punk. Hu Sanxing reads this in the departing tone. Collected Rhymes (Jiyun): The ancient seal script form is written as a variant. Sometimes written as a variant. Popularly written as a variant, which is incorrect.