Wei Collection, Middle Volume. Radical: Writing Brush (yù). Kangxi strokes: 14. Page 972, Entry 02. Pronounced zhao. Shuowen Jiezi (Explanation of Writing and Analysis of Characters): To strike. Also, Guangyun (Wide Rhymes): To begin. Book of Documents (Shujing), Canon of Shun: To establish twelve provinces. Commentary: Zhao means to begin. Also, Announcement of Zhonghui: To establish our state in the Xia. Commentary: To begin our Shang dynasty in the Xia era. Also, to rectify. Discourses of the States (Guoyu), Discourses of Qi: To equalize the root and rectify the tip. Annotation: To equalize means to make even. To rectify means to set straight. This refers to first evening the roots to rectify the tips. Also, to be diligent. Erya, Explanation of Words: Zhao means diligent. Book of Documents, Announcement on Alcohol: Diligently lead the oxen and carts to serve as merchants in distant lands. Also, to plan. Erya, Explanation of Ancient Words: Zhao means to plan. Book of Odes (Shijing), Greater Odes: Diligently plan our great task, and use it to bestow blessings upon you. Commentary: Zhao means to plan. Explication of Text: Han School of Poetry states: It means long. Also, a mountain name. Classic of Mountains and Seas (Shanhaijing): East of the Blue River on Mount Hua, there is a mountain named Zhao Mountain. Also, the same as the character for omen (zhào). Book of Odes, Greater Odes: To return to the initial sacrifices. Commentary: Zhao means to begin. It means to return to the sacrifices in the suburbs. Jian Annotation: Zhao refers to the divine positions of the suburbs. Sub-commentary: Zhao should be written as omen. The Ministry of Rites, Lesser Director of Ancestral Temples states: To designate the omens of the five emperors at the four suburbs. Also, Book of Odes, Eulogies of Shang: To mark the boundaries of the four seas. Jian Annotation: Zhao should be written as omen. Sub-commentary: It speaks of rectifying the boundaries of the world, using the four seas as the omen-territory. Also, Pronounced dao. To strike.