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Rh Ssŭ is composed of 食 shih to eat as radical, and 司 ssŭ to manage as phonetic. [For eight extra lines which in some editions are inserted here, see Appendix I.]

Yüeh see.

Hsi is composed of 口 k'ou mouth as radical and an obsolete word associated with joy. It appears in the Shuo Wên as a radical.

Nu is composed of 心 hsin heart as radical and 奴 nu slave as phonetic.

Yüeh see.

Ai is composed of 衣 i clothes with 口 k'ou mouth inserted in the middle as radical. This is a common arrangement (lines, ). Eitel wrongly renders by "grief."

Chü is composed of 心 hsin heart as radical, with a phonetic made up of two 目 mu eyes over 隹 chui a short-tailed bird. The phonetic originally meant the glance of a kite, which would excite fear; hence it came to mean timid, and was probably used in early times without its present radical. One old form was two 目 mu eyes over 心 hsin heart. Some cheap editions erroneously read 樂 lo; hence Eitel's rendering "pleasure."

Ai was originally composed of 夊 sui to walk slowly as radical,