You Collection, Lower Volume Radical: Walk (chuò) Character: Ze Kangxi stroke count: 12 Page 1255, Entry 09 Guangyun (Dictionary of Sounds and Meanings): Pronounced ze (falling tone) Jiyun (Collective Rhymes): Pronounced ze (entering tone) Yunhui (Collection of Rhymes): Pronounced ze (entering tone) Zhengyun (Correct Rhymes): Pronounced ze (entering tone) Shuowen Jiezi (Explanation of Graphs and Analysis of Characters): Ze ze, to arise. Yupian (Jade Chapters): To press or constrain. Biography of Dou Rong in the Book of the Later Han (Hou Hanshu): The power of Xiao was pressing and constraining, leaving one unable to advance or retreat. Commentary: Pressing and constraining means to crowd or tighten. Biography of Zhong in the Book of the Later Han (Hou Hanshu): Neighbors and nearby villages, all mutually crowding and constraining. Also, Guangyun: Pronounced zuo (entering tone). Jiyun: Pronounced zuo (entering tone). The meaning is the same. Commonly written as a variant form. Textual Research: In the Biography of Dou Rong in the Book of the Later Han (Hou Hanshu), the text reads that the power of Xiao was pressing and constraining, leaving one unable to advance or retreat. The commentary states that pressing and constraining means to crowd. According to the original text, the character zhi has been corrected to shi. The word pressing has been added before the word crowding.