Yin Collection, Lower Volume
Radical: Tiny (yāo)
Kangxi stroke count: 5
Page 342, Entry 02
Ancient script.
Pronounced you (falling tone).
Book of Rites (Yili), Explanations of Words (Erya): You means young or immature.
Explanations of Names (Shimingshi): You means few. It refers to a short time since birth.
Book of Rites (Liji), Songs of Refinement (Quli): A person at ten years of age is called youxue.
Commentary: You refers to the period from birth until the age of nineteen. Therefore, the Tan Gong chapter states: A childhood name is given at three months. The Cap Ritual states: Cast aside your childhood aspirations, which refers to the period before nineteen as youth. The Commentary on Mourning Garments (Sangfu Zhuan) states: When the child is young. Zheng Kangcheng explains: This refers to those under fifteen. Here it states: At ten, one is called youxue, meaning one begins to study at ten.
Also refers to cherishing the young.
Mencius: Cherish my young, and extend this to the young of others.
Note: You here carries the meaning of cherishing.
Also the name of a currency during the reign of Wang Mang.
History of the Former Han (Qianhan Shu), Treatise on Food and Money (Shihuo Zhi): A coin with a diameter of eight fen and a weight of five zhu is called a you coin, with a value of twenty.
Also in Collected Rhymes (Jiyun): Pronounced yu (entering tone). The meaning is the same.
Also in Collected Rhymes (Jiyun): Pronounced yao (falling tone). You refers to the subtle and refined.
History of the Former Han (Qianhan Shu), Eulogy of the Records of Emperor Yuan: To exhaust the depths of the subtle.
Note: You is read as yao.
Sima Xiangru, Rhapsody of the Long Gate (Changmen Fu): The sound is subtle and marvelous, rising and falling.
Also interchangeable with the character meaning to bend or stubborn (ao).
Collected Rhymes (Jiyun): The character meaning to bend is sometimes written as you.