You Collection, Middle Volume
Radical: Cowrie (bèi)
Storage (zhù)
Kangxi Strokes: 12
Page 1206, Entry 09
Broad Rhymes (Guangyun): Pronounced lü.
Collected Rhymes (Jiyun): Pronounced lü.
Explaining Graphs and Analyzing Characters (Shuowen): To accumulate.
Jade Chapter (Yupian): To store.
Broad Rhymes (Guangyun): To dwell.
Gongyang Commentary on the Spring and Autumn Annals (Gongyang Zhuan), Third Year of Duke Xi: Do not store grain.
History of the Former Han (Qian Hanshu), Treatise on Food and Money: Accumulation and storage are the lifeblood of the world.
Also written in a variant form (chu).
Rites of Zhou (Zhouli), Earth Offices, Notes on Market Officials: Refers to goods stored in the marketplace.
Explication of Texts (Shiwen): Originally or sometimes written as (zhù), or also as (chǔ), all are the same.
Also interchangeable with (zhù).
Records of the Grand Historian (Shiji), Biographies of Money-makers: The principle of accumulation.
Note: (zhù) is pronounced lü.
The character was originally composed of the radical for roof (níng) and the component (zhù).