Wei Collection, Lower Volume
Radical: Meat (ròu)
Page 974, Entry 08
Combined Rhymes (Jiyun), Rhyme Meetings (Yunhui), Correct Rhymes (Zhengyun): Pronounced yu.
Explanation from the Dictionary (Shuowen): To raise and educate children to lead them toward goodness.
Broad Rhymes (Guangyun): To raise and nourish.
Book of Changes (Yijing), Meng Hexagram: The superior person uses resolute action to cultivate virtue.
Commentary: Cultivating virtue is the effort of fostering upright conduct.
Sub-commentary: To cultivate his virtue.
Also, Progressions of Glosses (Erya, Shigu): Growth.
Book of Odes (Shijing), Odes of Wei: Already born, already grown.
箋 (Jian): Refers to the process of growing up into an adult.
Book of Documents (Shujing), Pan Geng: I will cut off and extinguish them, leaving no descendants.
Commentary: Refers to descendants.
Discourses of the States (Jinyu): Rectify titles and cultivate the same kind.
Commentary: To cause to grow.
Also refers to giving birth.
Book of Rites (Liji), Doctrine of the Mean: To cause all things to grow and develop.
Commentary: To grow.
Also refers to protecting and raising.
Book of Odes (Shijing), Odes of Xiao Ya: Raised me and protected me.
箋: Refers to protection and nurturing.
Also refers to being young or small.
Book of Odes (Shijing), Odes of Wei: Formerly, when young, fearful and poor.
箋: Formerly young, refers to the time of being small.
Also a place name.
History of the Former Han (Qianhan Shu), Treatise on Geography: Yuyang.
Commentary: Belonged to Nanyang Commandery.
Also, Combined Rhymes (Jiyun): There is also this surname.
Also, Combined Rhymes (Jiyun): Pronounced zhou. Refers to descendants.
Also, Rhyme Meetings (Yunhui): Interchangeable with the character for yue (to nurture or sell).
Book of Odes (Shijing), Odes of Bin: The worries of raising children.
Book of Rites (Liji), Record of Music: Beasts become pregnant and give birth.
Commentary: Refers to birth.
Also, Combined Rhymes (Jiyun): Sometimes written in a variant form (yù).
History of the Former Han (Qianhan Shu), Treatise on the Five Phases: To gestate roots and sprouts.
Also, Rhyme Supplement (Yunbu): Rhymes with the sound yi.
Book of Odes (Shijing), Odes of Da Ya: Born and raised. Rhymes with the preceding word su (evening) and the following word ji (millet).
Also rhymes with the sound yi.
Huang Boren, Praise of the Dragon Horse: Receiving the nurturing spiritual energy of the gods, born again in the Dawan state. Possessing the exterior form of a dragon horse, resembling the principles of a lively, coiled dragon.