Chou Collection, Upper Volume
Radical: Mouth (kǒu)
Xu
Kangxi strokes: 12
Page 199, Entry 22
Broad Rhymes (Guangyun): Pronounced xu. Collected Rhymes (Jiyun) and Rhymes Compilation (Yunhui): Pronounced xu.
Broad Rhymes (Guangyun): To present or show. Also, according to Collected Rhymes (Jiyun): To blow. Originally written as the variant form (xu).
History of the Former Han (Qianhan shu), Biography of Prince Jing of Zhongshan: The breath of many can move a mountain. Sometimes written as the variant form (xu).
Correction of Characters (Zhengzitong): Same as the variant form (xu), meaning to warm or moisten.
Book of Tang (Tang shu), Biography of Wei Zheng: The labor of protecting the people, warming them like one's own children.
Correction of Characters (Zhengzitong): The appearance of a flattering smile.
Liu Zongyuan, Letter to Gu Shilang: Describing a flattering and submissive manner.
History of the Former Han (Qianhan shu), Biography of Prince Jing of Zhongshan, Commentary by Yan Shigu: Pronounced xu.
Collected Rhymes (Jiyun) and Rhymes Compilation (Yunhui): Pronounced xu. The meaning is the same.
History of the Former Han (Qianhan shu), Commentary by Yan Shigu: Also pronounced xu.
Wang Chong, Balanced Inquiries (Lunheng): The wind is like the breath of a person.
Collected Rhymes (Jiyun): Also defined as the appearance of smiling.