Zi Collection, Middle Volume
Radical: Person (rén)
Tiao
Kangxi strokes: 8
Page 100, Entry 30
Broad Rhymes (Guangyun): Pronounced tiao.
Collected Rhymes (Jiyun), Rhyme Compendium (Yunhui), Correct Rhymes (Zhengyun): Pronounced tiao. The appearance of walking alone.
Also, Progress of Odes (Erya), Explanation of Words (Shiyan): Tiao means negligent.
Qu Yuan, Encountering Sorrow (Lisao): I still loathe his flippancy and craftiness.
Also, the appearance of a traveler unable to endure hardship.
Book of Odes (Shijing), Lesser Odes (Xiaoya): The flippant young nobleman walks along that main road.
Also, to steal fame.
Discourses of Zhou (Zhouyu): To steal heavenly honors and claim them as one's own merit.
Also, Tiao, the name of a nation.
River Chart and Jade Board (Hetu Yuban): The people of Tiao are three hundred and fifty feet tall.
Also, Collected Rhymes (Jiyun), Rhyme Compendium (Yunhui), Correct Rhymes (Zhengyun): Pronounced tiao (rising tone). Same meaning.
Also, Comprehensive Dictionary (Zizhitong): Pronounced yao. Meaning slow.
Xunzi, Chapter on Kings and Hegemons: To relax the deadlines, and benefit from their skillful tasks; if it is like this, then the hundred artisans will not be careless. Yang Shen stated: Tiao is the same as yao.
Spring and Autumn of Master Yan (Yanzi Chunqiu): Duke Jing was building a terrace for his sleeping quarters, and commanded that they slacken the days and not rush, wishing to please the ruler above and ensure the wandering laborers have enough to eat. In the current system of equalized labor (junyao), the character yao is used to indicate the slowing of levies and corvée labor.
Also, Yangzi, Regional Dialects (Fangyan): Tiaokang, meaning to hang. In the regions of Zhao and Wei, this is called tiao.
Also, to hang objects upon a platform is called tiao.
Also, Supplement to the Collection of Characters (Zihuibu): Pronounced zhao.
Former Han, Hymns for the Suburban Sacrifices (Jiaosige): Tiao, righteous, auspicious, grand, and flourishing. So read by Ru Chun.
Correction: Progress of Odes (Erya), Explanation of Explanations (Shigu): Tiao, negligent. I have carefully corrected this from Explanation of Words (Shiyan) in accordance with the original text.
