You Collection, Upper Volume
Radical: Speech (yán)
Kangxi Strokes: 16
Page 1171, Entry 03
Pronounced yù (falling tone)
Shuowen Jiezi (Explanation of Simple and Compound Characters): To announce.
Leipian (Classified Dictionary): To enlighten.
Yunhui (Collection of Rhymes): When someone has not yet understood, to inform them so they may become enlightened.
Guliang Zhuan (Guliang's Commentary on the Spring and Autumn Annals), Sixth Year of Duke Huan: To cultivate instruction and clarify the path of the state.
Book of Rites (Liji), Sacrificial Meaning: To express one's intentions clearly.
Sub-commentary: To instruct the prayer officers to inform the spirits, enlightening the spirits regarding one's intentions.
Rites of Zhou (Zhouli), Office of Autumn: The Ya officer manages litigation from all directions, explaining crimes to the various states.
Annotation: To explain and make known the reasons for applying specific punishments.
Sub-commentary: To explain is to enlighten, hence it is called informing and enlightening.
Strategies of the Warring States (Zhanguo Ce): I understand now.
Annotation: To understand means to be enlightened.
Lüshi Chunqiu (Master Lu's Spring and Autumn Annals), Chapter on Discoursing: Words are used to express one's intentions.
Huainanzi (Book of the Prince of Huainan), Chapter on Principles of Governance: Wearing mourning garments made of coarse hemp and sandals of straw, stamping feet and weeping are ways to express grief.
Annotation: To express means to clarify.
Also, Yupian (Jade Dictionary): To explain by analogy.
Book of Han (Hanshu), Biography of Jia Yi: Jia Yi mourned for Qu Yuan and thus used him to draw a parallel to himself.
Shigu Annotation: To explain by analogy.
Also, Guangya (Expanded Encyclopedia): To remonstrate.
Also, a title of an official post.
Old Book of Tang (Tangshu), Treatise on Civil Officials: There were the Left and Right Supervisors of Instruction.
Also, the name of a county.
Book of Jin (Jinshu), Treatise on Geography: Xinyu County, belonging to Ancheng Commandery in Jingzhou, established during the Wu Dynasty.
Old Book of Tang (Tangshu), Treatise on Geography: Zhaoyu County, belonging to Jinzhou, established in the third year of the Chuigong reign period.
Also, a surname.
Guangyun (Broad Rhymes): During the Eastern Jin Dynasty there was Yu Gui, a man from Yuzhang who wrote the Western River Record. He Chengtian said: pronounced shù.
Also, Yupian (Jade Dictionary): Pronounced tōu (rising tone). To entice.
Jiyun (Collection of Rhymes): Sometimes written as a variant form (yù).