Hai Collection, Upper Volume
Radical: Carriage (chē)
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Kangxi stroke count: 24
Page 1446, Entry 21
Guangyun (Guangyun): Pronounced zhou (falling tone)
Jiyun (Jiyun), Yunhui (Yunhui), Zhengyun (Zhengyun): Pronounced zhou (falling tone)
Yupian (Yupian): To run or gallop.
Shuowen (Shuowen): A horse moving rapidly.
Book of Odes (Shijing), Lesser Odes (Xiaoya): Carrying horses, galloping rapidly.
Commentary: A slow gallop is called chi; moving faster than that is called zhou. Also, anything that is rapid is called zhou.
Also means frequently.
Zuo Commentary (Zuozhuan), Eleventh Year of Duke Xiang: The state of Jin was able to come frequently.
Commentary: The state of Jin used the armies of the feudal lords, dispatching them in turns, thus they were able to come frequently.
Jiyun (Jiyun): Pronounced zhou (falling tone). Meaning is the same.
Also read as qu (level tone).
Huainanzi (Huainanzi), Discourses on the Original Way (Yuandao xun): Give free rein to the mind to stretch its rhythm, to gallop over vast regions; if one can walk slowly, then walk slowly; if one can run quickly, then run quickly.
Also read as qu (falling tone).
Huan Lin Qishuo (Huan Lin Qishuo): The carriage wheels could not keep up their rotation, the feet could not keep up their rapid pace. Soaring into the sky to surpass the floating clouds, with a glance like a gale or dense fog. Originally written as the variant form.