Xu Collection, Lower Volume Radical: Food (shí) Page 99, Entry 16 Pronounced yu. According to the Explaining Graphs and Analyzing Characters (Shuowen): Abundance. According to the Jade Chapters (Yupian): Remainder. According to the Broad Rhymes (Guangyun): Surplus. Book of Rites (Zhouli), Offices of Heaven, Prime Minister: Using the nine taxes to collect wealth and goods. The ninth is the tax on remaining currency. Zheng Commentary: The remnants of the hundred artisans. Zuo Tradition (Zuo Zhuan), First Year of Duke Wen: Returning the remainder to the end. Also, Mencius: The surplus men have twenty-five acres. Commentary: One husband, with parents above and wife and children below, based on a unit of five to eight people. If there is a younger brother, he is a surplus man. Also, Book of Rites (Zhouli), Offices of Earth, Minor Minister of Education: For all major national affairs, summon the people. For major crises, summon the surplus sons. Commentary: Surplus refers to excess. Zheng Kangcheng states: Surplus sons are the sons of ministers and grand masters who are meant to guard the royal palace. Zuo Tradition (Zuo Zhuan), Second Year of Duke Xuan: Also employed their surplus sons. Commentary: Surplus sons refers to the younger brothers of the heir by the same mother. Also, a name of a state. Spring and Autumn Annals (Chunqiu), Second Year of Duke Zhuang: In summer, Duke's son Qingfu led the army to attack Yuqiu. Commentary: Yuqiu is the name of a state. Also, a location name. Zuo Tradition (Zuo Zhuan), Twenty-second Year of Duke Zhao: Ju defeated the Qi army at Shouyu. Also, a boat name. Zuo Tradition (Zuo Zhuan), Seventeenth Year of Duke Zhao: Chu greatly defeated the Wu army and captured their flagship, the Yuhuang. Also, a plant name. Classic of Mountains and Seas (Shanhaijing): On Zhaoyao Mountain there is a plant like chives, with blue flowers, named Zhuyu; eating it prevents hunger. Also, a surname. In Jin there were Yu Wei and Yu Wenzhong. Also, Liangyu and Fuyu, both compound surnames, see the Record of Surnames (Xingpu). Also, pronounced ye. Zhuangzi, Yielding the Throne Chapter: Its legacy remnants are used for the state. Sima Biao Commentary: Legacy remnants means what is left over. Legacy is pronounced she, remainder is pronounced ye. Also, rhyming with you. Han Yu, Poem on the Slow Horse and the Fine Steed: Neighing on the main road, the ambition seems to have excess. The fine steed born in the borderlands, prides itself on having no equal. Also, rhyming with yu. Old Poem: The new worker weaves silk, the old worker weaves plain cloth. Weaving silk one bolt a day, weaving plain cloth more than five zhang. Standard Dictionary (Zhengzitong): According to the Book of Rites (Zhouli), Offices of Earth, Distributor: All remaining gatherings are kept for distribution. This was originally the character for public, but due to similar sounds it was corrupted to the character for remainder; therefore, the commentary states that remainder should be written as the character for remainder (with the food radical), meaning items accumulated in prefectures and capitals. According to the original commentary, remainder should not be written as the character here. The Correct Rhymes (Zhengyun) in the entry for the character yu under the four-fish rhyme, cites the Book of Rites (Zhouli) and also writes it as the character here. Combining the two characters as one is incorrect.