You Collection, Lower Volume
Radical: Walk (chuò)
Character: 遜
Kangxi strokes: 17
Page 1263, Entry 01
Pronounced xùn.
Standardized Dictionary (Zheng Yun): To follow, to be modest and respectful.
Book of Documents (Shangshu), Canon of Shun: The five human relationships are not in harmony.
Also, Book of Documents (Shangshu), Taixun: To have words that contradict your intentions.
Also, Book of Documents (Shangshu), Sayings of Yue: Only through study can one become modest and compliant. Commentary: To be modest and yield; to make one's will humble, as if feeling incapable.
Also, Explaining Graphs and Analyzing Characters (Shuowen Jiezi): To escape.
Book of Documents (Shangshu), Viscount of Wei (Weizi): My elder ministers have escaped to the wilderness. Commentary: To flee to the wilderness.
Commonly written as the variant form sun.
Book of Odes (Shijing), Odes of Bin: The noble grandson (sun) has large, beautiful skin.
Record of Rites (Liji), Record on Education (Xueji): To ensure their undertakings proceed smoothly.
Spring and Autumn Annals (Chunqiu), First Year of Duke Zhuang: The lady escaped to the State of Qi.
Collected Rhymes (Jiyun): Also written in a variant form (xùn).
Textual research: In the Book of Documents (Shangshu), Taixun, the original text reads "words that contradict your intentions." The character "Da" has been corrected to "Tai" and "xin" has been corrected to "zhi" according to the original text.