Chou Collection, Lower Volume
Radical: Woman (nǚ)
孅
Kangxi Strokes: 20
Page 274, Entry 09
Pronounced xian.
Shuowen Jiezi (Explaining Graphs and Analyzing Characters) states it means sharp and fine. It is interchangeable with the character xian.
Book of Han (Hanshu), Treatise on Food and Money: In the past, when governing the world, it was to the most minute and detailed degree.
Book of Han (Hanshu), Biography of Wang Ji: If there is even the slightest thing missing.
Also means weak.
Sima Xiangru, Rhapsody on the Shanglin Park: Charming and delicately weak.
Also a personal name. Xian'a was a skilled charioteer in antiquity.
Sima Xiangru, Rhapsody on Sir Fantasy (Zixu fu): Xian'a served as the charioteer.
Also, per Jiyun (Rhymes Collected): Pronounced xian. Xianqu refers to being craftily sycophantic.
Records of the Grand Historian (Shiji), Biography of the Diviner: Jizhu said: That which you call virtuous is all shameful; you find faults to present, and speak with crafty sycophancy.