You Collection, Lower Volume
Radical: Walk (chuò)
Character: Su
Kangxi strokes: 17
Page 1263, Entry 15
Broad Rhymes (Guangyun): Pronounced su. Collected Rhymes (Jiyun), Rhyme Meetings (Yunhui), and Correct Rhymes (Zhengyun): Pronounced su.
Explanations of Graphs and Analysis of Characters (Shuowen): Same as the character for moving against a current.
Book of Odes (Shijing), Qin Wind: Moving against the current to follow him. Commentary: This means to go upstream.
Also: Moving along the current to follow him. Commentary: This means to go downstream.
Also: Collected Rhymes (Jiyun): To face toward. Correct Rhymes (Zhengyun): To welcome.
Book of Odes (Shijing), Greater Odes (Daya): Facing his faults. Commentary: This means to face them and dwell upon them.
Also: Like facing the wind. Commentary: Like a person facing the wind, whose breath is obstructed and who cannot inhale.
Also: Interchangeable with the character for reporting or complaining.
Strategies of the Warring States (Zhan Guo Ce): The ruler of Wei walked barefoot to report and complain to the state of Wei. Commentary: The two characters are the same.
Also: Character Rectification (Zhengzitong): The characters for upstream, downstream, and this character are all the same.