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Yu see.

Lien is composed of 車 ch'ê a cart and the walking radical, and may possibly derive its meaning from a string of carts.

Shan see. [Lien shan is the name of a system of philosophy of permutations said to have been invented by the Emperor 伏羲 Fu Hsi, B.C. 2953—2838, who began with the Diagram for hills.]

Yu see.

Kuei is composed of a contraction of 婦 fu wife, 止 chih to stop as radical, and an old form of 堆 tui a heap as phonetic. It originally meant the marriage of a woman, in which sense it will be found in the Odes.

Tsang was originally 臧 tsang which is composed of 臣 ch'ên as radical inserted in 戕 ch'iang a spear, and which is now reserved for such meanings as good, right. The 艸 ts'ao vegetation was added later in order to mark the sense to conceal. In modern days it means a place for keeping things, a treasury; read, the character means to conceal, to store up. [Kuei tsang was the system of the Emperor 神農 Shên Nung, B.C. 2838—2698, who began with the Diagram for earth. Eitel, borrowing from Wylie (Notes on Ch. Lit. p. 2), translates this term by Reverting Deposit; and further, again from Wylie, he makes the system in force under the 商 Shang dynasty, and that of in force under the 夏 Hsia dynasty .]