You Collection, Upper Volume Radical: Speech (yán) Kangxi Strokes: 10 Page 1148, Entry 01 Archaic form: xùn Pronounced xùn (falling tone) Shuowen Jiezi (Dictionary of Characters): To explain or teach. Xu says: To explain means to follow the intent and guide accordingly. Zheng Yun (Correct Rhymes): To instruct. Zihui (Collection of Characters): To guide. Book of Documents (Shangshu), Yi Xun: Yi Yin clearly stated the accomplished virtues of the glorious ancestors to instruct the king. Commentary: Written as instructions to teach Taijia. Book of Odes (Shijing), Daya: The four quarters will take this as a model. Orthodox Meaning: Instruction is another name for teaching and guidance. Book of Rites (Liji), Quli: Teachings and instructions to rectify customs. Sub-commentary: Meaning to explain principles. Zhengzitong (Comprehensive Dictionary): Ancient words that can serve as standards. Book of Documents (Shangshu), Yue Ming: Learn from ancient instructions. Book of Odes (Shijing), Daya: Ancient instructions are to be followed. Commentary: Gu means old. Xun means path. Commentary: Ancient instructions are the legacy canons of the former kings. Zuo Zhuan (Zuo Commentary), 6th Year of Duke Wen: Inform them of the instructive canons. Note: Instructive canons are the books of the former kings. Yupian (Jade Chapters): To admonish. Book of Wei (Weishu), Biography of Gao Yun: Your subject has been commanded to compile the decadent influences of wine from past ages to create the Alcohol Admonition. Guangyun (Expanded Rhymes): For men, it is called jiao (teaching); for women, it is called xun (instruction). Boya (Broad Refinements): To follow or comply. Book of Documents (Shangshu), Kang Gao: August Heaven thereby followed its path and entrusted the four quarters. Commentary: High Heaven followed the path of King Wen and King Wu and entrusted them with the grandeur of the world. History of the Later Han (Hou Hanshu), Biography of Fangshu: Below, make the five classes all follow in the proper season. Note: Xun means to follow. Gu-xun (Explanation of terms): Another name for annotation. Erya, Preface by Guo Pu: The Erya is used to clarify the direction of the gu-xun. Sub-commentary: Xun means path. It is the appearance of guiding matters to inform people. Book of Han (Hanshu), Biography of Yang Xiong: Did not perform sentence-by-sentence analysis or xun-gu. Shigu Note: Xun refers to explaining the principles of what is spoken. Zihui (Collection of Characters): For example, explaining a character by a certain meaning, following its logic to interpret it. Official title: Zhou Rites (Zhouli), Xia Guan: Xun-fang-shi (Office of Regional Guidance), responsible for guiding the administrative affairs of the four quarters. Bird name: Tang History (Tangshu), Five Elements Record: The owl is also known as xun-hu. Beast name: Shenyi Jing (Classic of Divine Marvels): Taowu, a beast in the western wilderness. Also known as nan-xun (difficult to tame). State name: Tang History (Tangshu), Geography Record: Jiangnan Circuit had Xun Prefecture. Surname: During the Xuande period of the Ming dynasty, there was a professor named Xun Jun. Wuyin Jiyun (Collected Rhymes of Five Sounds): Pronounced xún. To guide. Zhou Rites (Zhouli), Di Guan: Tu-xun (Earth Guide), read by Zheng Sinong. Also rhymes with the wen (literary) rhyme category: Jin History (Jinshu), Biography of Wei Heng: The great Jin dynasty opens its beginning, spreading the way and laying out instructions. Heaven hangs its signs, earth shines with its patterns.