Chou Collection, Upper Volume
Radical: Mouth (kǒu)
Character: 哑
Kangxi Stroke Count: 11
Page 196, Entry 15
Broad Rhymes (Guangyun): Pronounced e
Collected Rhymes (Jiyun): Pronounced e
Rhyme Treasury (Yunhui), Correct Rhymes (Zhengyun): Pronounced e
According to the Explaining Graphs and Analyzing Characters (Shuowen): To laugh.
Book of Changes (Yijing), Hexagram Zhen: Laughing and speaking in an ya-ya manner.
Commentary (Shu): Ya-ya is the sound of laughter and speech.
Model Sayings (Fayan) by Yangzi: Someone laughed ya-er: Must use the strategy of questioning to resolve the examination.
Collected Rhymes (Jiyun): Sometimes written as a variant form.
Collected Rhymes (Jiyun): Pronounced yue. Meaning is the same.
Collected Rhymes (Jiyun), Categorized Compilation (Leipian): Pronounced e. Meaning is the same.
Forest of Changes (Yilin): The wild ducks are ya-ya, taking the water as their dwelling, male and female in harmony, hearts and spirits amused.
Also, Broad Rhymes (Guangyun): Pronounced ya (rising tone)
Collected Rhymes (Jiyun), Correct Rhymes (Zhengyun): Pronounced ya (rising tone)
Rhyme Treasury (Yunhui): Pronounced ya (rising tone)
Jade Chapters (Yupian): To not speak.
Collected Rhymes (Jiyun): Mute.
Strategies of the Warring States (Zhanguoce): Yu Rang swallowed charcoal to become mute, changing his voice.
Broad Rhymes (Guangyun): The same as the variant character ya.
Also, Collected Rhymes (Jiyun), Correct Rhymes (Zhengyun): Pronounced ya
Rhyme Treasury (Yunhui): Pronounced ya
Collected Rhymes (Jiyun): Ya-ou refers to a young child learning to speak.
Huainanzi, Original Way Training (Yuandao Xun): The crows are ya-ya.
History of the Former Han (Qianhan), Wang Ji Shooting Crows Odes: Wu-wu ya-ya.
Also, Collected Rhymes (Jiyun): Pronounced ya
A sound.
Han Feizi, Difficulties (Nanpian): Shi Kuang said: Ya, these are not the words of one who leads men as a sovereign.
Collected Rhymes (Jiyun): One definition is the sound of a bird.
Note: The character for mute was originally formed with the radical for sickness and the phonetic element for luxurious.
Textual research: Collected Rhymes (Jiyun) originally read "tuo" (a type of disease). According to the original text, it has been corrected to "mute."
