Chen Collection, Middle Volume Radical: Tree (mù) tā Kangxi Stroke Count: 14 Page 545, Entry 09 Pronounced tā (falling tone) from the Tangyun, Jiyun, and Yunhui. Pronounced tā (falling tone) from the Zhengyun. A bed. From the radical "mù" and "yǔ". A narrow and long bed is called a tā. "Shiming" states it resembles a quail, being low and close to the ground. "Book of the Later Han - Biography of Xu Zhi": Chen Fan, while serving as administrator, did not entertain guests. Only when Xu Zhi arrived did he specifically prepare a tā for him. Also refers to a type of cloth. "Records of the Grand Historian - Treatise on the Economy": tā cloth and leather, a thousand shi. "Book of Han - Yinyi": tā cloth is white cotton cloth. Also rhymes with "yuè" (entering tone), pronounced close to tè. "Poem on the Pavilion of Prince Teng" by Su Shi: My heart is startled by the gathering of fish and dragons; my eyes follow the disappearing wild geese. The administrator, a scholar from the eastern Lu, has Xu Ru's tā in his residence.