Yin Collection, Lower Volume Radical: Tiny (yāo) Page 342, Entry 12 Pronounced you. Shuowen Jiezi (Explanation of Simple and Compound Characters): Hidden or secluded. Book of Changes (Yijing), Hexagram of Treading (Lü): A secluded person is persistent and auspicious. Commentary: One who lives in seclusion and maintains upright conduct will be auspicious. Book of Rites (Liji), Conduct of Scholars (Ruxing): Secluded in dwelling yet not licentious. Commentary: Even when a noble man dwells in seclusion, he constantly cultivates his character to be upright and avoids impropriety. History of the Later Han (Hou Hanshu), Edict of the First Year of the Zhanghe Era: Shining light upon the six dark and hidden places of the universe. Commentary: Refers to illuminating the dark and hidden corners of heaven and earth. Also, Erya (Approaching Elegance), Interpretation of Ancient Terms (Shigu): Dark, meaning subtle. Commentary: Dark means profound and subtle. Records of the Grand Historian (Shiji), Treatise on Music (Yueshu): Extremely profound and deep, yet not obscured. Also, Yupian (Jade Chapters): Dark, meaning deep and distant. Book of Changes (Yijing), Appended Remarks (Xici): There is nothing that is not far, near, dark, or deep. Commentary: This means the principles of the Book of Changes inform people of all things, whether far or near, and reach into even the most obscure and deep places. Book of Odes (Shijing), Lesser Odes of Kingdom (Xiaoya): The dark and deep Southern Mountain. Commentary: Dark and deep describes the appearance of being profound and distant. Also, Yupian: Dark, meaning unclear. Standard Rhymes (Zhengyun): Dark, meaning dim. Book of Documents (Shangshu), Canon of Shun (Shundian): Dismissing the dark and promoting the bright. Commentary: Demoting the dim-witted and corrupt while promoting the virtuous and clear-sighted. Book of Rites (Liji), Tan Gong: Hoping for the soul to return to the darkness is the method of praying to ghosts and spirits. Commentary: Ghosts and spirits reside within darkness. Also, Standard Rhymes: Dark, meaning imprisoned. Records of the Grand Historian (Shiji), Preface of the Grand Historian: Imprisoned within the jail. Letter from Yang Yun to Sun Huizong: Myself imprisoned at the Northern Palace Gate. Also, the name of a province. Book of Documents (Shangshu), Canon of Shun (Shundian): Initiated the twelve provinces. Commentary: After the Great Yu regulated the waters, the legendary Emperor Shun divided Ji Province into You Province and Bing Province. Erya (Approaching Elegance), Interpretation of Geography (Shidi): Yan is called You Province. Commentary: The climate of the Yan territory is deep and treacherous, and the customs of the people are hardy and swift, hence it is called You. You means treacherous and dangerous. Also, a place name. Zuo Commentary (Zuozhuan), Sixteenth Year of Duke Zhuang: Alliance formed at You. Commentary: You is a place in the State of Song. Also, the name of a state. Classic of Mountains and Seas (Shanhaijing): Within the Great Wilds, there is the State of Siyou, where men who long for women do not take wives, and women who long for men do not take husbands. Commentary: This refers to people there who conceive children through longing and spiritual connection without the need for marriage. Also, a surname. Guangyun (Broad Rhymes): Derived from the Name Garden (Xingyuan). Also, interchangeable with the character meaning dark-black. Jiyun (Collection of Rhymes): The character meaning dark-black is sometimes written as You. Book of Rites (Liji), Jade Pattern (Yuzao): One of rank uses a reddish-yellow knee-cover and dark-black ceremonial jade; those of higher rank use a red knee-cover and dark-black ceremonial jade. Commentary: You is read as the you in dark-black. Also, rhyming with jiao, pronounced qiao. Daozang Ge (Songs of the Daoist Canon): Circling in dance upon the great void ridge, the six breaths circulate in profound darkness. How could my boundaries be exhausted, causing you to never wither? Also, Book of Odes (Shijing), Lesser Odes of Kingdom (Xiaoya): The marsh mulberry tree is beautiful, its leaves are dark. Having seen the noble man, his virtuous reputation is very firm. Commentary: You means black.