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 the guiding influence of fire as its own especial element. Hence Zottoli's rendering, "Ignea Sung," gives no clue whatever to the real signification, while Eitel's "glorious Sung" is altogether wrong.

Sung see.

Hsing see.

Shou is composed of 爪 chao claws above, and 又 yu hand (see ) beneath, a hooked line which is here said to be a contraction of 舟 chou a boat, and plays the part of phonetic, while the two first mentioned make up the ancient radical. It commonly means to be the recipient of, to suffer, and is now classed under radical yu.

Chou see. [The reference is to the six-year-old son of the last Emperor of the Later Chou dynasty, who resigned in A.D. 960 in favour of the founder of the Sung dynasty.]

Shan is composed of 示 shih divine manifestation as radical, with 單 tan single as phonetic. It means sacrificial worship of Earth, which is part of the Imperial prerogative; also, to abdicate. Read, it means to sit in contemplation, as Buddhist priests do.

Shih see.

Pa see.

Ch'uan see.