You Collection, Lower Volume
Radical: Walk (chuò)
Character: Yun
Kangxi strokes: 16
Page 1254, Entry 03
Ancient characters. Pronounced yun (falling tone).
Jade Records (Yupian): To rotate, to move.
Orthography Dictionary (Zhengyun): To go, to employ.
Book of Changes (Yijing), Appended Statements (Xici): The sun and moon revolve and move.
Book of Documents (Shujing), Plan of Great Yu (Dayu Mo): The virtue of the Emperor moves extensively. Annotation: To move without cessation.
Book of Rites (Liji), Minor Rituals (Shaoyi): The gentleman yawns, stretches, and moves his tablet. Annotation: Yun means to move.
Also, per Analytical Dictionary of Chinese Characters (Shuowen): To shift or relocate.
Broad Rimes (Guangyun): To transport by turning.
History of the Later Han (Houhan Shu), Treatise on Government Officials: The Commandant for Merit-rating is in charge of matters concerning the transport of soldiers and prisoners.
Also, per Orthography Dictionary (Zhengyun): That which is created by Heaven is called yun.
Armillary Sphere (Huntian Yi): The movement of the heavens is like the hub of a carriage.
Also, per Compendium of Rimes (Yunhui): The Five Transmissions refer to the flowing and cycling of the energy of the Five Elements.
Also, the destiny of a dynasty, the order of history.
Records of the Grand Historian (Shiji), Eulogy for Emperor Gaozu: The Han dynasty succeeded to the destiny of Yao.
Also, per Collected Rimes (Jiyun): North-south distance is called yun.
Discourses of the States (Guoyu), Discourses of Yue: An extensive yun of one hundred li. Annotation: In the Rhapsody on Traveling to a Distance, east-west distance is called wide (guang), and north-south distance is called yun.
Also, rhymes with fen (level tone), pronounced yun.
Cai Yong, Rhapsody on Traveling (Shuxing Fu): Spent two nights and then rested, longing to wander eastward. Seeing the bright sunlight, I felt a slight pause and was delighted.
Also, rhymes with yuan (falling tone), pronounced yuan.
Ruan Yu, Zither Song: The celestial gates open brilliantly, the Great Wei responds to the timing of destiny. The green canopy patrols the Nine Provinces, in the west and east the people complain.
Textual Research: In the Book of Rites, Minor Rituals, the gentleman yawns, stretches, and moves his tablet. The citation has been corrected from the Original Rituals to Minor Rituals.
In the Discourses of the States, an extensive yun of one hundred li. Added the word annotation after one hundred li as per the original text.
In the Rhapsody on Traveling by Cai Yong, the text has been corrected from Rhapsody on Traveling to a Distance to Rhapsody on Traveling. The phrase about wandering has been corrected from the original, and the brightness of the sun has been adjusted accordingly.