You Collection, Lower Volume
Radical: Walk (chuò)
Character: Yu
Kangxi Stroke Count: 10
Page 1253, Entry 22
Broad Rhymes (Guangyun): Pronounced yu.
Collected Rhymes (Jiyun), Rhyme Meetings (Yunhui): Pronounced yu.
Yu Pian: Far.
Records of the Grand Historian (Shiji), Biography of Meng Ke: Remote and disconnected from practical affairs.
Book of the Later Han (Hou Hanshu), Biography of Wang Chang: Its words seem roundabout, yet its effects are very immediate.
Also, crooked.
Classic of History (Shujing), Pan Geng: Fearing that people might lean upon your bodies and distort (yu) your hearts.
Commentary: Fearing that gossiping people might distort your hearts, making them crooked and depraved.
Guanzi, Ruler and Minister: If the people are crooked, let them flow; if the people flow, make them crooked.
Commentary: If they are crooked and do not act, make them straight so they act. If they drift and do not return, constrain them so they stop.
Also, yu-jiu, meaning for a long time.
Book of the Later Han (Hou Hanshu), Biography of Liu Kuan: After a long time, he returned, heavily intoxicated.
Also, Explanation of Writing (Shuowen): To avoid.
Also, Yu Pian: Vast and great.
Also, Tang Rhyme (Tangyun): Pronounced yu. The meaning is the same.
Originally written as yu. Commonly written as yu.
Textual Research:
Book of the Later Han (Hou Hanshu), Biography of Wang Gong: Its words are very roundabout, its effects are very immediate. (We have corrected Gong to Chang and changed very roundabout to seem roundabout based on the original text.)
Guanzi, Ruler and Minister: If the people are crooked, let them flow; if the people flow, make them crooked. (We have changed the second instance of flow to circulate based on the original text.)