Wei Collection, Middle Volume Radical: Plow (lěi) Plow (yōu); Kangxi stroke count: 21; Page 964, Entry 39 According to Broad Rimes (Guangyun) and Collected Rimes (Jiyun), it is pronounced you. According to Correct Rimes (Zhengyun), it is pronounced you. The pronunciation is the same as the word for worry. It refers to the agricultural task of covering seeds. According to the Xu Annotation to the Explanation of Graphs and Analysis of Characters (Shuowen Xuzhu), it is a tool for leveling fields; after sowing, this tool is used to smooth the soil, allowing the turned earth to close back up to cover the seeds. Analects (Lunyu): To cover seeds without stopping. Annotation: The you is the covering of seeds. Zhuangzi, Ze Yang chapter: Deeply plow the fields and carefully cover the seeds, then the crops will flourish and grow. Annotation: The you is hoeing the ground. Huainanzi, Fan Lun Xun: The common people toil but receive little benefit, so later generations created agricultural tools such as the plow, the spade, and the seed-covering mallet. Annotation: The you is a wooden mallet for breaking up clods of earth. In the Sanfu region, it is called dai, and is used to cover seeds. Also, according to the Rhyme Supplement (Yunbu), in a rhymed context it is pronounced you. Records of the Grand Historian (Shiji), Divination by Tortoise and Yarrow chapter: Plow it, cover it, hoe it, weed it. Also, in a rhymed context it is pronounced rao. Emperor Wu of Liang, Poem on the Ritual Field: The dukes and ministers hold the plows, the common people shoulder the hoes and mallets. One person puts one hundred kings to shame, pushing the plow three times before the millions of the masses.