You Collection, Upper Volume Radical: Speech (yán) Kangxi Strokes: 16 Page 1171, Entry 01 Pronounced yu (falling tone). Shuowen Jiezi (Explanation of Graphs and Analysis of Characters) defines it as to announce. Leipian (Classified Chapters) defines it as to enlighten. Yunhui (Collection of Rhymes) states: when someone has not yet understood, inform them to make them understand. Guliang Zhuan (Guliang's Commentary on the Spring and Autumn Annals): To cultivate teachings and clarify the way of the sovereign. Book of Rites (Liji), Sacrificial Meaning: To make clear one's intentions. Commentary: To cause the ritual officials to open and announce to the spirits, making clear the intentions to the spirits. Rites of Zhou (Zhouli), Office of Autumn: The Ya official manages the lawsuits of the four quarters, announcing the crimes to the states. Note: To announce and clarify by detailing the crime and the original basis for the judgment. Commentary: To make clear is to enlighten, therefore it says to announce and enlighten. Strategies of the Warring States (Zhanguo Ce): I have understood. Note: To understand, to be enlightened. Lu Shi Chunqiu (Master Lu's Spring and Autumn Annals), Chapter on Departing from Words: Words are used to express one's intentions. Huainanzi, On the Art of Sovereignty: Wearing mourning garments and sandals of rushes, beating the breast, weeping, and wailing—this is the way to express sorrow. Note: To express, to make clear. Also, Yupian (Jade Chapters) defines it as an analogy. Book of Han (Hanshu), Biography of Jia Yi: Yi lamented for Qu Yuan, and by this, drew an analogy to himself. Note by Yan Shigu: To draw an analogy. Also, Guangya (Expanded Glossaries) defines it as to remonstrate. Also, an official title. Tang History (Tangshu), Treatise on Official Positions: There were the Left and Right Remonstrance Advisors (Yu de). Also, the name of a county. Book of Jin (Jinshu), Treatise on Geography: Xinyu County, belonging to Ancheng Commandery of Jing Province, established during the Wu dynasty. Tang History (Tangshu), Treatise on Geography: Zhaoyu County, belonging to Jin Province, established in the third year of the Chuigong reign period. Also, a surname. Guangyun (Broad Rhymes): During the Eastern Jin dynasty, there was Yu Gui, a man from Yuzhang who wrote the Western River Record (Xihe Ji). He Chengtian says: pronounced shu. Also, Yupian (Jade Chapters): Pronounced tou (rising tone). To entice. Jiyun (Collection of Rhymes): Sometimes written in a variant form (yu).