Si Collection, Upper Volume Radical: Water (shuǐ) Tai Kangxi brush strokes: 8 Page 607, Entry 18 Broad Rhymes (Guangyun), Collected Rhymes (Jiyun), Rhymes Compilation (Yunhui), Correct Rhymes (Zhengyun): Pronounced tai (falling tone). According to the Explaining Graphs and Analyzing Characters (Shuowen), it means smooth or slippery. Jia Yi, New Book (Xinshu), Daoist Arts Chapter: To have a deep will and hidden conduct is called purity; the opposite of purity is excess. It also means excessive. Zuo Commentary (Zuozhuan), Fourth Year of Duke Xuan: Bo Fen shot at the King, the arrow passing over the carriage pole. Du Commentary: Tai means to pass over. The arrow passed over the carriage pole. Also means to sift or filter. Zhuangzi, All Under Heaven Chapter: Ling tai in regard to things. Commentary: It means the same as sifting or filtering, indicating a filtering process that renders things pure. Book of Jin (Jinshu), Biography of Sun Chuo: Sifting it and filtering it, the rubble remains behind. Also means to wash or cleanse (taotai). Huainanzi, Summary of Essentials (Yaolue): Used to wash, cleanse, and scour the utmost intentions. Commentary: Taotai means to moisten. Book of the Later Han (Houhanshu), Biography of Chen Yuan: Taotai, the confusion of students. Commentary: Taotai is the same as washing. It is also written as the variant form (taotai). Essential Techniques for the Peasantry (Qimin Yaoshu): Method for making sauce: soak the yellow beans in hot water, after a long time wash and sift them, then drain and steam them. Also means extravagant or indulgent. Xunzi, Confucius Chapter: Within the private chambers, indulgence in pleasure and extravagance. Zuo Commentary (Zuozhuan), Fourteenth Year of Duke Xiang: Luan Yan was too indulgent and tyrannical. According to Collected Rhymes (Jiyun): Pronounced ti (falling tone). Refers to water waves. Also pronounced da (falling tone). Refers to washing rice. Equivalent to the form (dai). According to Correct Rhymes (Zhengyun): Pronounced ta (entering tone). Also means smooth or slippery. Su Shi, Song of the Rice-Seedling Horse: Using my two feet as four hooves, rising and leaping, smooth and slippery like wild ducks.