You Collection, Upper Volume Radical: Speech (yán) Kangxi Strokes: 13 Page 1158, Entry 17 Pronounced xiáng. Shuowen Jiezi: To deliberate carefully. Yupian: To examine; to discuss; to verify. Zengyun: To provide a complete account. Classic of History (Shangshu): "Deliberate carefully on your observations and listening." Commentary: To examine. Book of Odes (Shijing): "The words spoken in the inner chambers cannot be recounted in detail." Commentary: To speak of it in detail. Guliang Zhuan: "To detail the events, honoring the elder sister." Records of the Grand Historian (Shiji): "The details could not be obtained or recorded." Book of Han (Hanshu): "Extensively invited scholars of the empire who possessed broad knowledge." Commentary: To detail means to be thorough. Also means good. Book of Changes (Yijing): "Unable to retreat, unable to advance; this is not good." Commentary: To be detailed means to be good. Hesitating in advance and retreat is not considered good. Shiwen: Wang Su wrote this as the character meaning auspicious. Zuo Zhuan: "Use care and detail to serve the spirits." Commentary: To be detailed means to be auspicious. Also, to use one's mind well is called being detailed. Gongyang Zhuan: "Not to pardon is not auspicious." Also a title for an official. History of Song (Songshi): Inspection and deliberation officials, established in the fourth year of the Xining era. History of Jin (Jinshi): Officials who pacify frontier people were called xiangwen, inheriting the official titles of the Liao Dynasty. Also commonly written as a variant form (xiáng). Book of Han (Hanshu): "The distances of the roads are accurate and detailed." Commentary: This variant is synonymous with the standard form; it is a phonetic loan. Pronounced yáng. Deceitful. Commonly written as a variant form (yáng). Records of the Grand Historian (Shiji): "Jizi feigned madness and became a slave." Shuowen Jiezi: Originally written as the variant form. Zihui: Erroneously written as the standard form, listed under the six-stroke radical. This is incorrect.