Hai Collection, Upper Volume
Radical: Horse (mǎ)
Kangxi stroke count: 13
Page 1434, Entry 14
Pronounced xun.
Shuowen Jiezi (Shuowen): A horse that is obedient.
Yupian (Yupian): To follow, to be good.
Zhuangzi (Zhuangzi), Commentary on the Horses' Hooves chapter: To do no harm to creatures, therefore creatures are docile.
Lu Deming, Sound and Meaning (Yinyi): Xun, pronounced zun, or sometimes pronounced chun.
Furthermore, anything that arrives gradually is called xun.
Book of Changes (Yijing), Kun Hexagram: Gradually reaching its path until the solid ice.
Also, to be domesticated, to follow.
Records of the Grand Historian (Shiji), Annals of the Five Emperors: His language was not refined and compliant, so the scholars found it difficult to speak of.
Also, pronounced chun.
Also, pronounced yun. The meaning is the same.
Also, pronounced xun.
Records of the Grand Historian (Shiji), Annals of Emperor Wen of Han: The marquises also have no means to teach and discipline their people.
Correct Interpretation (Zhengyi): Xun is the ancient form of the word xun (teach/instruct).