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 Mêng is composed of 艸 ts'ao vegetation and an important phonetic. It was originally defined as 王女 wang nü prince's daughter, a name for wistaria, and came to mean in the dark, dull, stupid, the young, and then to teach. [Père Zottoli wrongly renders by "Quicumque instruit rudes." For Eitel, see .]

Hsü is composed of 頁 yeh head as radical and 彡 shan hair, feathers. It was formerly a radical and a picture of whiskers or beard, which was its original meaning; hence the modern 鬚 hsü a beard. It appears to have been phonetically borrowed to express a word hsü to want, need, etc., and has now given up its sense of hair on the face to the more complicated modern character. Is often incorrectly written 湏.

Chiang is composed of 言 yen words with a phonetic which governs a larger group of characters pronounced like itself kou.

Chiu is composed of 穴 hsüeh a cave as radical with 九 chiu nine as phonetic. It is also used in the sense of judicial examination. [The phrase chiang chiu further means to analyse; to reject the coarse and take the fine; to be particular about, etc.]

Hsiang is composed of 言 yen words as radical and 羊 yang sheep as phonetic. It means to go into small details, to describe.

Hsün see.

Ku is composed of 言 yen words as radical and 古 ku ancient (see ) as phonetic. It means to trace out original sources; hence, to adduce evidence in support of an interpretation, etc.