Si Collection, Lower Volume Radical: Slice (piàn) Kangxi Strokes: 15 Page 694, Entry 18 Pronounced you (rising tone). Shuowen Jiezi (Dictionary of Explaining and Analyzing Characters): A hole opened in a wall, made with crossed wooden slats to form a window. The character is composed of the components slice, door, and fu. Tan Chang believes the top of the fu component is the character for sun, not the character for door. A window is used to allow sunlight to enter. Guangyun (Broad Rimes): Refers to a window. Book of Changes (Yijing), Hexagram Kan: Handing simple items through a window. Book of Odes (Shijing), Shao Nan: Beneath the window of the ancestral temple. Book of Odes (Shijing), Da Ya: Heaven guides the people. Commentary: Window implies guidance. Sub-commentary: Window is interchangeable with the character meaning to lure or guide (you), hence it is interpreted as guidance. Also a place name. Records of the Grand Historian (Shiji), Biography of Chen Ping: A man from Huyou Township, Yangwu County. Also interchangeable with the character (you). History of the Former Han (Qian Hanshu), Biographies of the Thirteen Princes of Emperor Jing: King Wen of Zhou was imprisoned in Youli.