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Rh was used until the introduction of 字 tzŭ (see ), and literature, and by extension civilian (see ). [Eitel and Père Zottoli have both missed the point of these two lines. For the latter Eitel has "and understand the several appellatives" whatever that may mean. P. Zottoli has "scias aliquot notiones," the scias following an ut erroneously inserted as a conjunction between lines and .]

I stands for Unity, the cosmogonical abstraction which was ultimately subdivided into two forces, the resultant being the visible material universe. It is the number of heaven; see and.

Erh originally meant whiskers. It is now used as a conjunction, sometimes disjunctive, and also as the pronoun you.

Shih is composed of one line pointing east and west and another pointing north and south; it therefore represents the hub of the universe, also numerical completeness, the Chinese system being decimal.

Shih see.

Erh see.

Pai (or pŏ) was composed, according to the Shuo Wên, of a contraction of 自 tzŭ nose as radical, and 一 i unity. In K'ang Hsi's dictionary, however, it is regarded as composed of 一 i one and 白 pai or pŏ white as radical, though i would be an intelligible radical and pai would be a perfect phonetic. The functions of radical and phonetic are often thus arbitrarily interchanged. Pai is much used by synecdoche for all, every; e.g. 百