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Ts'o is composed of 手 shou hand as radical, and 最 tsui to collect as phonetic.

Ch'i appears to have been written 兀 (see ) in early ages, meaning a stand for exhibiting things. It is defined as a word for pointing at things, a demonstrative, and is now classified under radical 八 pa. It is sometimes a demonstrative, and sometimes merely the article, definite or indefinite.

Yao is composed of an obsolete character representing the two hands as radical, and 交 chiao to interlace, originally a picture of crossed legs, as phonetic. The whole is a picture of a man standing with his arms akimbo, and meant waist, now written 腰 with 肉 jou flesh as radical: hence necessary, important, to need, etc. Read it means to meet, to intercept, to make an agreement, etc.

Chi see. It is not meant that such facts should be learnt by rote, but rather noted for use.

Ch'i see.

Shih is composed of 史 shih historian, its old radical, with a contraction of 之 chih as phonetic, and originally meant duties of office, to serve. It is now classed under radical 亅 (obsolete), and means business, affairs, but here points towards facts, as opposed to theories, which facts heterodox writers may have simply misinterpreted.