(1) Black. It occurs in the phrase , meaning the black-haired peo

ple. I. 2: II. i. 18: ii. 2, 10: iii. 2 : III. iii. 1: IV. x. 1: V. xxx. 6, 7. Some critics explain it in all these passages by,

all, the multitudinous. (2) All. II. iv. 7. (3) Light, spoken of soil. III. i. Pt. i. 67. (4) The name of an ancient minister. V. xxvii. 6. (5) The name of

a river. V. xiii. 3. (6) A, the

name of a hill. III. i. Pt. iii. 5.

THE 203D RADICAL. .

(1) Black,-spoken of the colour of soil, III. i. Pt. i. 17. (2), the Blackwater. Two rivers are mentioned of this name; one, the southern boundary of Leang-chow, III. i. P't. i. 62: one, the

western boundary of Yung-chow, p. 71; and Pt. ii. 6.

In silence, IV. viii, Pt. i, 2.

(1) To degrade; to be degraded. II.

刑, , p. 8, to be exposed to punishment.hu i, 27: IV. iii. 5: V. xx. 14.

ch'u drive away degraded. V. i. Pt. iii. 3.

降黜 = to make an end of. V. i. Pt. ii. 4. (2) To put away. IV. vii. Pt. i. 6, 10.

should, probably, be taken in the same

默

way. V. xxvii, 12, — the

mih

circumstances of penal cases; but

麓

The foot of a mountain, II. i. 2.

luh

lu

to adjust the ranks of a fighting host):

ch'i xiii. 6 (to marshal): xxvii. 13 (foll.

elephant's teeth, ivory.

III. í. Pt. i. 44, 52. (2) To be arranged

according to age, to have one's place in

the family roll. V. xvii. 1.

THE 212TH RADICAL. ·

(1) A dragon. One of the symbols on the upper sacrificial robe of the emperor. II. iv. 4. (2) An officer in the court of Shun, his minister of Communication. II. i. 23, 25. (3), the

name of a mountain on the western bank of the Ho, near where Yu began his labours. III. i. Pt. i. 82; Pt. ii. 7.

THE 213TH RADICAL.

The tortoise, whose shell was so much

by †), 19 (X). (2) Reve- we used in divination. V. iv. 26–31.

(3)

rent, grave. V. viii. 2: xxvi. 2.
Impartiality, where all is perfectly ad-

justed. V. xxiii. 5.

(4)

The State so

named. V. xxii. 11. (5)

方齊

one

of Yaou's ministers. I. 9.

OMISSIONS.

Page 649. Under add—(2), a | Page 703.

heuĕ

Above insert-, hsuch.

place far south, supposed to be in the borders A hole. A, the name of a moun

of Cochin-China. I. 5.

鳥鼠同穴

tain. III. i. Pt. ii. 12.

Page 710. Under add—(2) E E, a

minister of T'ae-mow. V. xvi. 7. add−(2)祖已,

NOTE. Since the publication of my second volume, I have met with three Works, which supply,
to a considerable extent, the place of dictionaries to the Classics. The Sinologue, who shall
undertake such a dictionary, will find in them a fund of most extensive and precious materials.
[1]. The first and handiest of the three is called, 'All the Characters
in the Classics and Thesaurus Discriminated and Explained. It was published at T'een-tsin, in
1822, by an officer, called Heung Show-keen (), who was assisted by a son, a
nephew, and a friend, in the compilation. Altogether it contains about 10,000 characters, arrang-
ed under the Radicals by the number of strokes, as in K'ang-he's dictionary, and in the order in
which they occur in that Work. It gives, moreover, simply the meanings there assigned to them;
but wherever a passage of the three oldest classics is quoted with a various reading in any of the
more recent ones, that is pointed out. The author estimates the number of characters in 'the
thirteen Classics' at rather more than 6,500; but he does not count a character more than once,
though difference of name and of tone would seem to require him to do so. The Book is in two
volumes, making together only 247 Chinese pages, so that the student finds it very convenient
for use. [The "Thesaurus' mentioned in the title is, of course, the, or Treasury
of Tones and Rhymes, compiled in the apartment P'ei-wăn,'—
'—one of the great literary Works
undertaken by the order of K'ang-he, and which contains nearly 9,000 characters, with their
names and tones defined, and their meaning and usage fully exhibited.]

[2]. The second Work is more voluminous, and consists of two Parts:-the

or 'The Explanation of the Characters in the Four Books,' in 78 chapters; and

"The Explanation of the Characters in the various King,' in 72 chapters. It was originally left
in manuscript by a scholar named Twan Go-ting (E), of the district of Keen-yang
(A) in Hoo-nan, and was afterwards revised, re-arranged, and published, under the auspices
of a Ilwang Pun-k'e (1), in 1857.

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The arrangement of the characters is perplexing for the student. Taking the Great Learn-
ing' first, the book gives a table of the different characters in it, chapter by chapter; in the same

way it follows with the 'Doctrine of the Mean,' the 'Analects,' and the 'Works of Mencius.' In
the second Part, we have the Yih, the Shoo, the She, the Ch'un Ts'ew, the Le Ke, the Chow Le,
the three Chuen of Tso-k'ew, of Kung-yang, and of Kuh-leang, the Heaou King, and the Urh
Ya, similarly dissected, no account being taken of the characters that have already occurred in the
Four Books. The lexical portion follows the dissection in each Part, and the characters are taken
in the order in which they have occurred in the Books. There is no arrangement of them with
reference to the Radicals or to their sounds. This is troublesome to the learner; and though
there is a preliminary chapter exhibiting the characters in each Book under their Radicals, much
time and labour are still required to find the place of any term under examination. For the
lexical portion itself, it is ample and satisfactory. The oldest definitions of the characters are
given, and numerous examples of their use are adduced.

It is said, in a summary, that in the Great Learning there are 394 difft. characters; in the
Doctrine of the Mean, 398 additional; in the Analects, other 616; and in the Works of Mencius,
776;-making in the Four Books not quite 2,200 characters. It is to be observed, however, that
the same character is not counted twice, though it may be variously toned and enunciated.

In the Yih, again, there are 296 new characters; and in the Shoo, 456. The Index which I
have compiled shows in the Shoo King altogether 1,998 different characters, counting a character
for each variation of name and tone.

[3]. The third Work is of a different character and of higher pretensions than either of the
above. It is called, A Digest of the Meanings in the Classical Books,' in 106
chapters. It was prepared, by the labours of many eminent scholars, under the superintendence of
Yuen Yuen, to whom I have said, in vol. I., proleg., p. 133, we owe the grand collection
of the Explanations of the Classics under the Ts'ing dynasty.' In an introductory chapter we
have a memorial in which Yuen Yuen, then superintendent of the Transport Service on the grand
canal, presents, in obedience to an order, his Work to the Emperor. It is dated in the 17th year
of Kea-king, or our 1812. In this digest the arrangement of characters adopted in the Thesaurus
is followed.

PHÈQUE

LY

DE LA

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1894

END OF VOL. III.