You Collection, Lower Volume
Radical: Foot (zú)
Character: Yuè
Kangxi Stroke Count: 11
Page 1222, Entry 21
Tang Rhymes (Tangyun), Collected Rhymes (Jiyun): Pronounced yuè.
Explaining Graphs and Analyzing Characters (Shuowen): To cut off the feet.
Han Feizi: When Confucius was the minister of the state of Wei, his disciple Zigao served as a prison official and cut off a man's feet.
Comprehensive Collection (Yupian): Sometimes written in a variant form (yuè).
Classification of Graphs (Leipian): Variant form (yuè) can also be written with the element (wù).
Collected Rhymes (Jiyun): Also pronounced wù.
Also pronounced yuè. The meaning is the same.
Also used interchangeably with (jì).
Book of Rites (Zhouli), Winter Officials, Artificers Record (Kaogongji), The Earthenware Maker: If the edges are jagged or broken, the pottery may not enter the market.
Commentary: The term (jì) is read as (yuè).
Commentary: This refers to vessels that are not upright and are crooked or slanted.
Textual Research: In the Book of Rites (Zhouli), Winter Officials, Artificers Record (Kaogongji), The Earthenware Maker section: If the edges are jagged or broken, the pottery may not enter the market. The term (fǎng) has been corrected to (fǎng) to strictly accord with the original text.