You Collection, Upper Volume Radical: Speech (yán) 讨 Kangxi Dictionary Stroke Count: 10 Page 1147, Entry 16 Pronounced tǎo. Shuowen Jiezi (Explanation of Simple and Compound Characters): Defined as to govern. The character is composed of speech and inch. Xu says that inch represents legal standards. One carries out mandates to punish criminals, hence it is formed with the radical for speech. It is an associative compound. Book of Documents (Shangshu), Chapter on the Counsels of Gao Yao: Heaven punishes those who are guilty. Commentary: To punish and correct the guilty, causing them to cease their evil actions. Zuo Commentary (Zuozhuan), Twelfth Year of Duke Xuan: Their ruler never spends a day without governing his people and instructing them. Note: To govern. Also, Guangyun (Broad Rhymes): Defined as to execute. Leipian (Classified Dictionary): Defined as to slaughter. Zhengyun (Correct Rhymes): Defined as to reprimand. Also defined as to remove. Gongyang Commentary (Gongyang Zhuan), Fourth Year of Duke Yin: Why is the term people used here? It is a phrasing used when discussing the punishment of criminals. Note: To remove. Also, Yupian (Jade Dictionary): Defined as to eliminate. Book of Rites (Liji), Chapter on Ritual Vessels: For the gentleman, regarding ritual, there is a sequence of following and gradually removing. Commentary: To gradually remove elements according to order. Also, Leipian (Classified Dictionary): Defined as to seek. Rhyme dictionaries: Defined as to explore. Zhengyun (Correct Rhymes): Defined as to investigate. Analects (Lunyu): Shishu investigated and explored it. Note: To seek, investigate, and explore. History of the Later Han (Hou Hanshu), Biography of Wang Chong: To investigate and reveal the principles of things. Records of the Three Kingdoms (Sanguozhi), Letter from Yuan Shao to Gongsun Zan: To seek out the source of the chaos. Also defined as mixed. Book of Odes (Shijing), Qin Wind: Shield decorated with feathered patterns. Commentary: Meng refers to variegated feathers. Note: To, meaning mixed. Referring to the pattern of variegated feathers painted on the shield. Also a type of official title. Old Book of Tang (Jiu Tangshu), Treatise on Official Posts: At the end of the Zhenyuan period, the position of pacification commissioner was established. History of Jin (Jinshi), Treatise on Official Posts: The duties of the pacification bureau were to soothe and appease those who surrendered and submitted, and to campaign against those who rebelled. Also pronounced tǒu. Jiao's Forest of Changes (Jiaoshi Yilin): Three strands of silk tie the crossbow, offering no help to the auxiliary forces. The city walls are thin and cannot be defended; the Lord of Guo suffers a campaign against him.