I CHING LEXICON re4 R#:140 R: Strokes:5,9 Wade/Giles:jê4 Freq:8 like, as, as if Giles: #5644, To be as; as; as if; if; as to. To conform to; to follow; to be like. In the case of; with regard to. To approve. To be in sympathy with. Also = ru3 you. Who? (rare). In Peking colloqial, read yao4. Karlgren: #938, to conform to, resemble, follow; equal to; resembling, like, as; as if, if; as to; (appl. to a homophon. w.:) you -- [the sign. cao3 shows that the char. has had some concrete sense ("gather vegetables": you4 hand and kou3 mouth, says the comm.) and then been appl. to the homophon. abstr. words above]. Legge: also romanize "zo" (1) As, as if (2) As, like, equal to (3)Such as, = this Wieger: #46G. Wilder: #430, the primitive sense is to pick herbs to eat; to select. H1L3, xi1 ti4 re4 Blofeld: "...evening finds him thoroughly alert." Cleary: "...is careful at night." Legge: "...in the evening still careful and apprehensive." Shaughnessy: [note MWD's xi1 ni2 re4 , "at night he is ashen... " Wilhelm: "At nightfall his mind is still beset with cares." bai2hua4 yi4jing1 -- Colloqial I Ching ti4 shi4 jing3ti4 [this-is to-be-vigilant] re4 yu3 ran2 tong2 [same-as certainly tong2 ie, together, with, alike .] H1 L3 H1 L3 WY H20 H20 COTD H30 L5 H43 L3 H45 L1

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