Shen Collection, Upper Volume
Radical: Grass (cǎo)
Xiang
Kangxi Stroke Count: 19
Page 1060, Entry 03
Tang Rhyme (Tangyun): Pronounced xiang.
Shuowen Jiezi (Shuowen): The scent of grain.
Book of Rites (Liji), Qu Li: Proso millet is called xianghe, bristle millet is called xiangqi.
Also, Nei Ze: In the spring, it is appropriate to serve suckling pig and lamb with fragrant fats.
Commentary: Beef fat is fragrant (xiang), dog fat is rank (sao).
Also, a place name.
Zhang Heng, Southern Capital Rhapsody (Nandu Fu): Fragrant flowers (huaxiang) and dark millet.
Commentary: Huaxiang is the name of a village.
Also, used interchangeably with fragrant (xiang).
Xunzi, On Physiognomy (Fei Xiang Pian): To send it off with a fragrant scent.
Records of the Grand Historian (Shiji), Biographies of Jesters (Huaji Liezhuan): A faint smell of fragrance reached me.
Also, Collection of Rhymes (Jiyun): Pronounced xiang (falling-rising tone), used interchangeably with echo (xiang).
History of the Former Han (Qian Hanshu), Biography of Yang Xiong: Fragrance rising and spreading to the roots.
Textual research:
In the Former Han, Yang Xiong, Anti-Disenchantment (Fansao): Fragrance rising and spreading to the roots.
Carefully corrected according to the original text of the Biography of Yang Xiong in the History of the Former Han.