Wu Collection, Lower Volume
Radical: Cave (xué)
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Kangxi strokes: 14
Page 867, Entry 01
Pronounced yu.
Shuowen Jiezi (Dictionary of Graphic Components): To cut a hole in a wooden door. Also defined as being empty inside. Also refers to carving a board to serve as a door.
Guangyun (Broad Rhymes): A small hole at the side of a door.
Book of Rites (Liji): A door made of brambles and a small aperture shaped like a jade tablet.
Annotation: A small door beside a main door, made by piercing a wall, shaped like a jade tablet.
Analects (Lunyu): Thieves who bore through walls and dig under doors.
Annotation: Refers to digging a hole through a wall.
Also pronounced tou. Same meaning.
Also pronounced dou. Same meaning.
Also pronounced dou. Refers to low-lying or deep-set terrain.
Also Zihui Bu (Supplement to the Collection of Characters): A vessel used for urine and excrement.
Meng Kang states: A toilet utensil.