Mao Collection, Middle Volume Radical: Hand (shǒu) Kangxi stroke count: 8 Page 421, Entry 10 Tang Rhymes (Tangyun): Pronounced shu (rising tone). Shuowen Jiezi: To ladle out. Zengyun: To guide and discharge. Cangjie Pian: To extract. Book of Odes (Shijing), Greater Odes (Daya): Someone is pounding the grain, someone is ladling it out. Commentary (Zhuan): To ladle out rice from a mortar. Sub-commentary (Shu): To remove rice from a mortar. History of the Former Han (Qian Hanshu), Biography of Wang Bao: Slightly dull but expressing one's true feelings. Annotation (Zhu): To express or vent. Guangyun: To exclude. Zuo Tradition (Zuozhuan), Sixth Year of Duke Wen: Those who possess these four virtues will surely have their difficulties resolved. Yangzi Fangyan: To resolve or dissolve. Jiyun, Yunhui: Pronounced zhu. The meaning is the same. Guangyun: Pronounced xu; Jiyun: Pronounced xu. Also means to ladle out. Also refers to dredging a watercourse. Sometimes erroneously written as xu. Yunhui and Zhengyun also consider it interchangeable with zhu.