Chou Collection, Upper Volume Radical: Mouth (kǒu) Character: ta Kangxi strokes: 17 Page 211, Entry 29 Broad Rhymes (Guangyun): Pronounced ta. Collected Rhymes (Jiyun), Rhyme Compendium (Yunhui), Correct Rhymes (Zhengyun): Pronounced ta. Broad Rhymes (Guangyun): To drink or gulp down. Collected Rhymes (Jiyun): To gulp down in large mouthfuls. Book of Rites (Liji), Section on Manners (Quli): Do not gulp down soup in large mouthfuls. Commentary: Because the vegetables are not being chewed. Sub-commentary: If a person does not chew their vegetables, but holds them in the mouth and swallows them down, this is an attempt to eat quickly and consume more, and it produces a sound that is impolite and injurious to one's sense of shame. Also in Collected Rhymes (Jiyun): Pronounced tui. The meaning is the same.