You Collection, Middle Volume. Radical: Shell (bèi). Kangxi stroke count: 15. Page 1209, Entry 09.
Broad Rimes (Guangyun): Pronounced zhou. Collected Rimes (Jiyun), Collected Rhymes (Yunhui): Pronounced zhou.
Jade Chapters (Yupian): To provide, to support, to receive.
Rites of Zhou (Zhouli), Earth Official, Grand Minister of Instruction: Five neighborhoods make a village, cause them to mutually assist one another (zhou). Commentary: This refers to gifts that are not prepared being supplemented to fulfill the need.
Also synonymous with the character for cycle (zhou). Book of Odes (Shijing), Greater Odes (Daya): There is no one who does not provide (zhou). Commentary: Zhou should be written as zhou. Sub-commentary: Because it implies providing for others, the character should be written with the shell radical, thus it is transformed into zhou.