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Pieh is composed of 刀 tao knife (in combination) on the right as radical, and an obsolete word which meant to scrape or cut a man's flesh from his bones. The latter is the phonetic of 過 kuo less 口 k'ou mouth, and is 骨 ku bones less 肉 (月 in combination) jou flesh; it has nothing to do with 另 ling separate, as might be inferred from the way in which it is now written. [An old form of pieh was two 八 pa, and the modern 八 pa eight is now written in official documents 捌.]

Shan see.

O see.

San see title.

Chuan is composed of 人 jen man as radical, and 專 chuan as phonetic, and means a chronicle, a biography. See. Read, it means to transmit, to deliver as orders, to summon.

Chê see.

Yu see.

Kung see.

Yang see. [Kung-yang is here a double surname, being