You Collection, Upper Volume Radical: Speech (yán) 誘 Kangxi strokes: 14 Page 1162, Entry 01 Ancient form is written as 羐 (lěi). Pronounced yǒu (falling tone). Book of Change (Erya), Explanation of Words: To advance. Book of Odes (Shijing), Preface to the Hengmen poem: Hengmen is to entice Duke Xi. Commentary: To advance. Jade Compendium (Yupian): To encourage one another. Broad Rhymes (Guangyun): To guide. Book of Documents (Shujing), Great Announcement: Therefore I broadly transform and guide the rulers of our friendly states. Commentary: To transform their stubbornness and guide them to follow and submit. Book of Odes (Shijing), Shao South: A girl longs for spring, a fine gentleman entices her. Commentary: To guide. Broad Rhymes (Guangyun): To teach. Ceremonial and Ritual (Yili), Village Archery Rites: Teach archery. Annotation: To teach. Explaining Graphs (Shuowen): To entice or call out to one another. Jade Compendium (Yupian): To pull or attract. Zuo Tradition (Zuozhuan), Tenth Year of Duke Xi: Que Rui said: The gifts are heavy and the words are sweet; this is to entice us. Records of the Grand Historian (Shiji), House of Goujian of Yue: The Grand Minister of Wu, Pi, is greedy; he can be enticed with profit. Also written as 牖 (yǒu). Book of Odes (Shijing), Greater Odes: Heaven guides the people. Correct Meaning (Zhengyi): 牖 and 誘 are interchangeable. Book of Rites (Liji), Record of Music: The Book of Odes says: To guide the people is very easy. Annotation: The original text of the Odes uses 牖. Also rhymes with yǔ (rising tone). Han Yu, Poem on the Virtues of the Yuanhe Era: There are those who fear the evil, there are those who offer bait and enticements. They emerge in great numbers, marching in their thousands. (Shǔ is read with a rising tone). Explaining Graphs (Shuowen) originally wrote this as 𧭈. Sometimes written in a variant form as 𧭃. Collected Rhymes (Jiyun) notes it is also written as 𧪄. The character originally comprised "to follow" and "to go".