Wei Collection, Middle Volume Radical: Silk (mì) Kangxi Strokes: 11 Page 921, Entry 01 Archaic script for sui. According to the Guangyun (Broad Rhymes), pronounced zhong. According to the Jiyun (Collected Rhymes) and the Yunhui (Collection of Rhymes), pronounced zhong. According to the Shuowen Jiezi (Explanation of Simple and Compound Characters), it means drawn silk. Also, according to the Yupian (Jade Compendium), it means the utmost or exhausted. According to the Jiyun (Collected Rhymes), another meaning is to finish. Book of Changes (Yijing), Commentary on the Appended Statements: The Book of Changes, in its original form, seeks the end. Book of Documents (Shangshu), Announcement of Zhong Hui: Be careful of the end, as one is of the beginning. Book of Odes (Shijing), Greater Odes: High and bright, a virtuous end. Also, Book of Rites (Liji), Tan Gong: The death of a gentleman is called zhong, the death of a commoner is called si. Also, Zuo Tradition (Zuo Zhuan), First Year of Duke Wen: The correctness of the former kings lies in time. To tread at the beginning, to raise the center correctly, and to return the remainder at the end. Commentary: To return the remainder is to distribute it at the end. This refers to placing the intercalary month at the end. Also, Zuo Tradition (Zuo Zhuan), Ninth Year of Duke Xiang: Twelve years have passed, this is called one zhong, which is the completion of one star cycle. Also, Erya (Approaching Elegance), Explaining Heaven: When the moon is in the position of ren, it is called zhong. Also, History of the Former Han (Qian Hanshu), Treatise on Law: An area of one square li is a jing; ten jing make a tong; ten tong make a cheng; a cheng is ten li square; ten cheng make a zhong. Also, a surname. Zuo Tradition (Zuo Zhuan), Fourth Year of Duke Ding: Of the seven clans of the Shang people, there is the Zhongkui clan. Records of the Grand Historian (Shiji), Annals of Qin: The ancestors of the Qin were of the Ying surname; later they were enfeoffed, and took their state as their surname, including the Zhongli clan. History of the Former Han (Qian Hanshu), Biography of Zhong Jun: Zhong Jun, courtesy name Ziyun, was a man from Jinan. Also, in rhyme supplementation, rhyming as zhireng. Book of Changes (Yijing), Kun, Commentary on the Words: To finish is to complete. Also, in rhyme supplementation, rhyming as zhiliang. Chen Lin, Rhapsody on Rosemary: Exhausting joy and celebration from dawn till dusk, though obscured, it shines all the more. There is no rise that does not decline, and there is no beginning that does not have an end.