the four quarters, occurs everywhere, mostly as a designation of the empire. E to proceed against on every

side. V. xx. 1., the wild tribes all around. II. ii. 6 ; et al.

as a

t'00 t'u

在

tsae

tsai

RJ, in

Sure, from; to be sure. III. iii. 4 : V. xvi. 10. Firmly. II. ii. 18. To strengthen,

make sure. IV. ii. 7: V. xiv. 3: xxiv. 7.

A kingdom, a State. Spoken of the

萬國

States of the empire. IV. iv. 7: V. i. Pt. ii. 4: iv. 19; et sæpe. the empire. V. xx. 3. So,

V. xxviii.

2; et al. Also, . V. xx. 10. Spoken of the empire. V. xv. 5, 6, 7: et sæpe.

May sometimes be translated by-dynas

ty. V. xii. 8, 18; et al., V. xi.

6., the people. V. xvi. 13. the name of a mountain, III.

i. Pt. ii. 2.

(1) To plan, to aim at. III. iii. 5: IV. v. Pt. ii. 3: vii. Pt. i. 7: V. vi. 10; et sæpe.

Plans, objects. IV. v. Pt. i. 6. To reckon

on. V. xviii. 3, 5, 14. (2) A plan or map. V. xiii. 3: xxii. 19.

THE 32D RADICAL. †.

(1) Earth. One of the five elements.

II.. 7: V. iv. 5. The land, as opposed

The

to water. II. i. 17: V. xxvii. 8. ground or soil. III. i. Pt. i. 7, 16, 17, 24; et al., sæpe. (2) Territory, regions; grounds. III. i. Pt. ii. 16: V. xxvii. 14: xxiii. 2: xx. 12: xiv. 23, 24; et al., sæpe.

(3) The earth, personified and deified, is called. V. iii. 6. Comp. , I. i. Pt. i. 10.

Passim. (1) As a preposition, and neuter verb. Its radical meaning is-in, to be in. But we must render it variously in translating,-in, on, in the case of, with reference to; to depend on, rest on, lie in, &c. Once standing alone, it = to be present. IV. iv. 1. It often precedes what we should call adverbs of place or

time,-#, 4, £, T, 1. 41, &c.

Obs. such usages as

, II. i. 19.

(2) To examine. I. i. 7: II. i. 5.

A gem-stone. III. i. Pt. ii. 23. Tokens

gem, given by the emperor to the no

圭

of

kwei

bles. V. xxii. 23: xxiii. 1.

As a noun, the cause. V. xviii. 5. As

kuei

圮

To injure, subvert. I. i. 11.

Pt. i. 70. As a verb, to go on to more of what has been spoken of. I. i. 5.

p'e

a preposition, by means of, on account

of. III. iii. 2: V. xxi. 14. Along. III. i.

chi

lay the foundations. V. ix. 1.

the founding decree. V. xiii. 2. The character, however, is generally used for the superstructure raised on the foundation, and = patrimony, possession, inheritance. IV. v. Pt. i. 2: V. vii. 9, 11: xvi. 2: xix. 15: xx. 14.

The hall, or outer apartment,—a raised

platform. V. xxvii. 21. To build the hall,

tange, to complete the building. V. vii. 11. To sustain; to be fit or worthy. V. xviii.

堂

堪 18,19.

k'au

yuou

yao

The emperor Yaou. I. 1: IV. viii. Pt. iii.

fun

fen

To brand, branding. IV. iv. 7: V. xxvii.

To fall to ruin. II. iv. 11.

? rich. Spoken of soil. III. i. Pt. i. 17,

An altar. V. vi. 4.

Dark and thin. Spoken of soil. III. i, Pt. i. 58.

To be spoiled, or ruined. II. ii. 7: V. xxiii. 3.

(1) 三壤 three qualities of the

soil. III. i. Pt. ii. 15. (2) Mellow. Spoken of the soil. III. i. Pt. i. 7, 58, 59. (3) The productions of different States. V. xxiii. 1.

THE 33D RADICAL.

士

Many, numerous; much; mostly. Pas

10

The night. Generally combined with

+

sze

shih

壬

jin

jên

hoo hu

show shou

hea

tion for officers. The idea of scholar does

yoy

not appear in the Shoo. The combina- yeh of卿士(sce卿),庶士

midnight. V. xxvi. 1.

(1)

the minister of Crime. II. i. 20: ii. 11: V. Axvii. 9. (3) In II. ii. 20: III. iv. 5, 7, and some parr. of V. i., † probably

warriors, gallant men. (4) In V. iii. 7,

士女= men and women.

(1) The 9th of the calendaric stem

characters. II. iv. 8: V. iii. 1: xxiv. 1. (2) Artful. II. iii. 2.

See П.

Long life. V. iv. 36.V.xxviii.

2, and, xii. 12, men of age and experience. = a long reign. V. xv. 7. As a verb, to grant long life to. V. xvi.

10.

THE 35TH RADICAL. .

(1) Summer. I. i. 5: V. iv. 28: xxv. 5.

(2) The dynasty so called. Passim. On hsia, see . (3) A name for the 有夏 empire. II. i. 20: V. iii. 5: viii. 3: ix. 4:

xix. 5. So, . V. iii. 6. (4)

Variegated. III. i. Pt. i. 35. (5)

, the name of a marsh, III. i. Pt. i. 14. (1) Grave, reverential-looking. II. ii. 21. (2) The name of Shun's director of kwei music. II. i. 24.

meng

great Families, V. xi. 1; the

grand chariot of the emperor. V., xxii. 20;

E the high chamberlain, xxvi. 3;

, the punishment of death., V.

xxvii, 18; &c., &c. (2) Applied to Yu,

Yu the Great. II. ii. 1, 5: III. iii. 3.

(3) ★★. See ✯. (4) ★ JII,

perhaps the Yellow River. V. iii. 6. (5) , the name of a tract of flat ground.

III. i. Pt. i. 9; and of a place in it, Pt. ii. 7., the name of a lake. III. i.

Pt. i. 31. 大別, see别大伾; RE

see

Great. 太康, the third emperor

of the Hea dyn. III. iii. 1.

and

emperors of the Shang dyn. V.

xvi. 7; et al. E, king Tae, the grandfather of king Wăn. V. iii. 5 : vi. 4 :

xv.8. 太保,太傅太師; see 保傅師太史; see史太

the minister of Religion. V. xxii.

23., the grand apartment of a

temple. V. xiii, 28. 太常

name of

V. x. 11: xv. 5: xxiii. 6. * 外諸子 天

and 小臣外正 certain officers so

named. V. ix. 17, 18. In the regions

t'ëen

t'ien

(1) The visible heavens, the sky. I. i.

10, 11: II. iv. 1., the firmament in which the heavenly bodies move. I. 3. , II. i. 12: ii. 4, 14 ; et sæpe ; used

for 天之下, belong to this mean

meaning. To this also should be reduced, probably, II. ii. 8: V. xx. 6. (2) It is once used for the place where God and happy spirits dwell. V. vi. 5. (3) Its most common use is for the supreme governing Power, understood to be omni

scient, omnipotent, and righteous. In this sense it is constantly interchanged with the names God, and supreme God. It is employed in this way more than 150 times. It has sometimes the adjunct of, supreme. IV. ii. 3: iii, 5, and more

often that of, great. II, ii. 4: III. iv. 2; et al. (4) occurs once, where

we might expect alone, for the go

verning Power. V. i. Pt. i. 3. (5)

, a designation of the emperor. III.

iv. 5: IV. viii. Pt. i. 1: V. iv. 16; et al.

(6) Heavenly. V. xix. 20: xxii. 19; et al. Obs. V. ix. 5: xxvii : 6.

An individual, a man. IV. viii. Pt. iii.

10: V. ii. 2: vii. 5: xxi. 11.

chia

夾 奄奇奈

婦 V. vi. 11, and 愚夫愚婦 III. yen

iii. 5,

any ordinary man or woman.

, a solitary man, with some de

gree of contempt. V. i. Pt. iii. 4.

et al. is also so used. II. i. 16,

20; and, V. v. 1. We have of specific tribes-the, III. i. Pt. i 35. et al.; the 26; the

和夷66; and the 鳥夷 10,44. See also V. xix. 11. (5) . the

place in the extreme ea t to which Yaou sent his astronomers. I. 4: III. i.

Pt. i. 22. (6) 1, Shun's minis

ter of Religion. II. i. 23.

(1) To keep-be-near to. III. i. Pt. i. 11: V. xxii. 21. (2) To aid. V. xviii. 21. To this meaning we should probably refer V. xi. 6. (3) Applied to a side

apartment of the palace. V. xxii. 18.

(1) Suddenly.II. ii. 4. (2) Entirely. V. xix. 5. (3) The name of a country. V. xviii. 1; et al.

Wonderful, strange. V. i. Pt. iii. 3:

v. 8.

ch'i

Also written with

alone in. V. xii. 10, the ordinary people.

nae

nai

We find it added to other words, making

them concrete nouns.-. 勇夫v.

xxx.5; 牧夫,xix.13,16,19,21; 準奉

★, xix. 7;, vii. 14; Jung 嗇

III. iv. 4. The usage in

IV. vi. 10, is peculiar., a designation of officers generally, below those of the highest rank. IV. viii. Pt. ii.

2: V. ii. 6: vi. 16: xx. 21. 夫子一

heroes, a complimentary designation. V. i. Pt. i. 9: ii. 7, 8, 9.

Low. 1st tone. It is found with this

tone only once, as a demonstrative.

this man, any man. V. xxii. 9.

Up. 1st tone. (1) Long and thin. Spoken of grass. III. i. Pt.i.42. (2)

yao 天

a man's name. V. xvi. 12.

夭

To cut life short. IV. ix. 3

yuou

失

夷

To lose. V. i. Pt. i. 11. To lose the favour of. V xiv. 8. To err. III. iii. 5:

IV. vii. Pt. ii. 11. To fail in paying at

tention, to disregard. II. ii. 6 : III. iii. 7 : IV. vii. Pt. ii. 2.

(1) To squat on the heels. V. i. Pt. i.

6. (2) Ordinary. V. i. Pt. ii. 6. (3) To feel comfortable, at ease. I. 6. (4) A name given to the barbarous tribes in

and around the middle kingdom. It is specially appropriate to those on the east, but we find those on the west expressly so designated in IV. ii. 6; and the term is often used for such tribes generally, as in III. i. Pt. ii. 21; V. xix. 11: xxii. 19.

Such is the force of II. ii, 6;

VOL UL

instead of . how. III.

In combination with fuf, ii. 5: V. xii. 9 (n. b.)

To bear or carry with both hands. V.

xii. 24: xxii. 23. the sceptres

which they bore. xxiii. 1.

IV. ii. 1 v. Pt. ii. 1.

奉辭

to escort.

to receive.

to carry orders. II ii. 20. To

serve, the sovereign, ancestors, Heaven. IV. v. Pt. ii. 7: V. i. Pt. ij. 4; t. iii. 1: xxvii. 13. Before other verbs, reve

rently. We have 奉恤,奉答,奉 **** V xxiii. 1: xiii.

14: IV. viii. Pt. ii. 2 : vii. Pt. ii. 9: ii. 2: III. iv. 5., V. xiv. 18; and 1. IV. vii. Pt. i. 12, are peculiar.

(1) To report to the emperor. II. i. 9. To advance, go to the pe. II. iv. 7. (N.B.). To bring forward, introduce. II. iv. 1. (2) Spoken of music. beat. III. iv. 4.

Selfish and open wickedness. I. 12. Villainous, openly wicked. V. i. Pt. iii. 3: xx. 11. In all other passages it is combined with, the phrase villains and traitors, or to play the part of such. II. i. 20: IV. vii. Pt. i. 12; Pt. ii. 16: xi. 2: V. ii. 6: ix. 15: xi. 2: xxi. 10: xxvii. 2.

Majesty, terrors. Used in this sense very often with reference to Heaven's dread purposes, and the manifestation of

them. II. ii. 7: iii. 7: V. xvi. 3, 10, 14, 15,

19; et al. 1 to display terrors, 作威

to play the tyrant. IV. iii. 3: V. i. Pt. iii. 3, 4: iv. 18, 19; et al. To be violent; the violent. V. ix. 18: xxvii. 12.

dignity of demeanour, majesty. V. x. 11: xxii. 9. To awe; to overawe. V. xxvii. 7. to awe those who should be awed. V. ix. 4. Dread, majestic. III. iv.

1

5 ; et al. 威用, to use in an awing

manner. V. iv. 4.14 F 17, to

waste and despise the five elements. III. ii. 3.

To marry. II. iv. 8.

如

to be as if; if. II.

Relatives. IV. vii. Pt. i. 10.

joo

ju

J. In Pt. IV. i. 3: vii, Pt. i. 2 : ix, 4:

x. 4. we have 其如台一what is

that to us? that does not concern us.

A deceased mother., a parent deceased. I. 13.

The name of a district of country, in

the imperial domain of Shang. V. x. 1, 6. Female camp-followers. V. xxix. 4.

To begin, make a beginning: to be the first to. II. iv. 4: V. xxvii. 2, 3. The

beginning; in the beginning, at first. IV.

ii. 9: v. Pt. iii. 2, 6: vi. 6: viii. Pt. iii. 5:

V. xiii. 9: xxiv. 13.

For a time; an expression of leniency

and laxity. V. x. 15: xxx. 4.

姑

koo

sing

V. v. 3., the hundred surnames,

hsing is a designation of the people. I. 2: II. i. 13, 19: ii. 6: III. iii. 3: vii. Pt. i. 12; Pt. iii. 3: V. i. Pt. ii. 7, 9: ii. 6: xxvii. 9, 14. the myriad surnames, is used

in the same way. In one case we have

爾萬方百姓, but 萬姓 need

not always be so resolved. In V. x. 10:

xvi. 3. 百姓一百官, or officers of

To be-do the duty of-wife to. I. 12.

THE 39TH RADICAL. F.

Passim. (1) A son. IV. iii. 3: V. vii. 11. 12; et sæpe. = descendants. V. xii.

11. 子孫 sons and grand-sons,

descendants is very common. We have

also 幼子童孫 V. xxvii. 13, and 子子孫孫xi. 18.冑子,II.i. 24, in the same sense. 婦子, see 婦 小子鞠子孺子沖子 元子天子不子 are all

appellations given to the emperor, or used by him of himself. (2) As a verb, to