You Collection, Lower Volume
Radical: Move (chuò)
Character: xùn
Kangxi strokes: 17
Page 1263, Entry 03
Pronounced xùn.
According to the Correct Rhymes (Zheng Yun), it means to submit or to be humble.
Book of Documents (Shangshu): The five grades of social relations were not in harmony.
Also, in the Taijia chapter: There are words that humble your intent.
Also, in the Yue Ming chapter: Only by learning can one humble one's intent.
Commentary: To be modest and self-restrained. To make one's own will humble, as if one were lacking in ability.
Also, according to the Explaining Graphs and Analyzing Characters (Shuowen Jiezi), it means to escape or flee.
Book of Documents (Shangshu): My elders have fled to the wilderness.
Commentary: To flee to the wilderness.
Also written in the variant form sun.
Book of Odes (Shijing): The Duke's grandson has fine skin.
Book of Rites (Liji): To humble oneself regarding his studies.
Spring and Autumn Annals (Chunqiu): The wife fled to the state of Qi.
According to the Collected Rhymes (Jiyun), it is also written as xùn.
Textual research: In the Book of Documents (Shangshu), the Taijia chapter mentions words that humble one's heart. The original text has been corrected from Da to Tai, and from heart to intent.