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 Shu was originally composed of 聿 lü or yü a stylus, with 者 chê as phonetic, and meant to make known. This was subsequently contracted to the modern character and classed under 曰 yüeh to speak as radical. [The Four Books form the first portion of the Confucian Canon and are learnt by heart by all candidates who hope to do anything at the public examinations. They are enumerated in lines —. See also .]

Lun is composed of 言 yen words and an important phonetic (lines, ).

Yü is composed of 言 yen words as radical, and 吾 wu I (吾 wu five and 口 k'ou mouth) as phonetic, and means talk.

Chê see. [The Lun Yü, Discourses or Analects, contains practically all we really know of the sayings and doings of Confucius. It is ascribed by the Chinese to the immediate disciples of the Sage.]

Erh is the number of earth, though in 五 wu five it is made to do duty for heaven and earth. It is the first of the female numbers, and represents the mating of 一 i one. See and.

Shih see.

P'ien is composed of 竹 chu bamboo as radical, with 扁 pien flat as phonetic. It means the flat bamboo tablet on which books were written with a stylus before the