Wei Collection, Middle Volume Radical: Silk (mì) 索 Kangxi Strokes: 10 Page 918, Entry 16 Guangyun: Pronounced suò Jiyun, Yunhui: Pronounced suò Shuowen: Written as, a plant with stems and leaves that can be made into ropes. Derived from Silk. Yunhui: The clerical script is written as 索. Xiao Erya: The large ones are called suo, the small ones are called sheng (ropes). Jijiupian Zhu: Suo refers to fibers twisted together to make them tight. Book of Documents (Shangshu): Like driving a team of six horses with rotten ropes. Book of Odes (Shijing): At night you twist the ropes. I Ching (Yijing): Zhen is shaking and fearful. Commentary: The appearance of an unsettled heart. Explanation of Texts: Fear. Book of Documents (Shangshu): The house is desolate. Commentary: Suo means exhausted. Rites of Zhou (Zhouli): Use ropes to search the rooms and drive away the plague. Commentary: Suo means to search out hidden things. Book of Rites (Liji): I am separated from my group and live alone. Commentary: Suo means scattered. Zuo Tradition (Zuo Zhuan): The Eight Suo and Nine Qiu. Preface to the Book of Documents: The explanations of the Eight Trigrams are called the Eight Suo. Place name. History of the Former Han (Qian Hanshu), Geography Treatise: There is a Suo County in Wudu Commandery. Surname. Zuo Tradition (Zuo Zhuan): The seven clans of the Yin people include the Suo clan. Guangyun, Jiyun: Pronounced sè. Same as seek. Book of Rites (Liji): The high official seeks an ox. Commentary: Suo means to seek, obtain, and use. Jiyun: Pronounced sù. Definition of Names: Suo means white. The Eight Suo are writings on the laws of the plain king. Qu Yuan, Li Sao: Everyone competes to advance in their greed, relying on insatiable seeking. They forgive themselves while judging others, each giving rise to jealousy in their hearts. Commentary: Suo is pronounced sù. Note: According to Shuowen, this character is in the Tree radical, now merged and attached here. Suo is derived from, in Shuowen it is in the radical. Textual Research: Qu Yuan, Li Sao: They forgive themselves while judging others, each giving rise to jealousy in their hearts. Added the character self (ji) after forgive (shu) according to the original text.