You Collection, Upper Volume Radical: Speech (yán) Page 1165, Entry 15 Pronounced sui (falling tone). Shuowen Jiezi (Explanation of Simple and Compound Characters): To rebuke. Yupian (Jade Chapters): To scold. Zengyun (Expanded Rhymes): To mock, to insult. Discourses of the States (Guoyu): The King of Wu returned from attacking Qi and rebuked Shenxu. Book of Tang (Tangshu): Resentful, insulting, and disrespectful. Guangya (Broad Refinement): To remonstrate, to ask. Zhuangzi: A perceptive scholar, if there are no affairs of bullying or scolding, will not be happy. Commentary: To insult and scold. Lu Deming, Sound and Meaning (Yinyi): To ask. Pronounced chong. Also pronounced jun. Pronounced cui (falling tone). To tell. Yupian (Jade Chapters): To speak, to ask. Pronounced sui (falling tone). Book of Han (Hanshu): Do not take the winnowing basket or broom and stand there speaking abusively. Fu Qian says: To scold. Zhang Yan says: To blame and rebuke. Yan Shigu says: Pronounced sui. Also interchangeable with xun (to inquire/interrogate). Zhang Heng, Rhapsody on Thinking (Si Fu): Carefully observe the signs in the celestial realm, investigate water and fire, and do not make reckless inquiries. Commentary: To tell. Book of the Later Han (Hou Hanshu): Written as reckless scolding. Zhuangzi: Bullying and scolding. Lu Deming, Sound and Meaning (Yinyi): Also pronounced xin. Pronounced zu (entering tone). Jinhu Zikao (Exegesis of Characters in the Golden Vessel): Bullying and scolding, mocking and blaming. Liezi: Bullying and scolding. Commentary: Refers to enjoying the act of bullying, insulting, and scolding others. Zhang Zhan pronounces it sui; Yin Jingshun pronounces it zu.