Mao Collection, Lower Volume
Radical: Tapping (pū)
Kangxi Strokes: 7
Page 468, Entry 10
Tang Yun (Tang Rhyme), Ji Yun (Collection Rhymes), Yun Hui (Treasury of Rhymes), Zheng Yun (Orthophony of Rhymes): Pronounced you.
Shuowen Jiezi (Explanation of Graphs and Analysis of Characters): Written as you, representing water flowing. Note: The tapping radical indicates the implement one leans on when entering water. In the Qin dynasty inscription on Mount Yi, the character you is written in a variant form.
Mencius (Mengzi): Moving away with sudden speed. Zhao commentary: You-ran means moving swiftly, rushing into deep water.
Erya (Approaching Elegance): You means a place.
Book of Changes (I Ching), Kun Hexagram: Where the noble man acts.
Book of Odes (Shijing), Greater Odes (Daya): To select a place for Han Ji. Commentary: To choose a suitable place for marriage.
Zuo Commentary (Zuo Zhuan), Third Year of Duke Ai: The fire-spirit follows them. Commentary: Yu-you refers to the essence of fire.
History of the Former Han (Qian Hanshu), Narrative Chapter: You-you outside. Commentary: You-you describes something distant.
Also used as a grammatical particle.
Book of Documents (Shangshu), Great Plan (Hongfan): The constant norms are regulated.
Book of Odes (Shijing), Greater Odes (Daya): All directions are gathered together.
Ji Yun (Collection Rhymes): Pronounced you.
Zuo Commentary (Zuo Zhuan), Twelfth Year of Duke Zhao: You-you in fear. Commentary: You-you describes a precarious, hanging state.
Also a surname.
Quick Learning (Jijiupian): In Northern Yan, there was a person named You Mai.
The character you is formed with the tapping radical.
Textual Research: In Zuo Commentary (Zuo Zhuan), Twelfth Year of Duke Zhao, it appears as you-you. According to the original text, the Thirteenth Year has been corrected to the Twelfth Year.