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94 still, notwithstanding. It is now classed under radical 小 hsiao small.

Yu is composed of the walking radical and a phonetic which originally meant a streamer or pennant. It is used with 游, which is now a distinct character but which appears to have been once only another form.

Shui (see ) means to stop, to halt, to counsel, and here refers to a class of adventurers who wandered from State to State, offering plans for vengeance etc. on rival rulers. This character is also sometimes read for 悅 to take pleasure in.

Shih see.

Ch'un see.

Ch'iu see. [With the transfer of the Court (see ) the period known later on as the Spring and Autumn may be roughly said to have begun, although the work of Confucius which gave its name to the epoch starts only from B.C. 722. Père Zottoli strangely mistakes the last two words for the book, and translates by "Initio apparuit Chronicorum liber." The book could scarcely have appeared at the beginning of the period it describes.]

Chung see.

Chan is composed of 戈 ko spear as radical, with tan single as phonetic.

Kuo see. [The Spring and Autumn period, as chronicled