Chen Collection, Middle Volume Radical: Tree (mù) Geng Kangxi strokes: 11 Page 529, Entry 04 Tang Rhymes (Tangyun), Broad Rhymes (Guangyun), Collected Rhymes (Jiyun), Categorized Compilation (Leipian), Correct Rhymes (Zhengyun): Pronounced geng. Shuowen: A mountain elm with thorns, whose pods can be used as herbs. Also means illness. Book of Odes (Shijing), Greater Odes: Until now it has been a trouble. Also, to resist disaster is called geng. Rites of Zhou (Zhouli), Offices of Heaven: The female priest invokes the warding off of disaster at the proper time, performing sacrifices to remove disease and misfortune. Also, Literary Expositor (Erya), Explaining Words: Geng means upright. Also, Yang Xiong's Dialects (Fangyan): Geng means rough outline. Genggai means a general summary. Also, when plants and trees prick people, it is called geng. Zhang Heng, Western Capital Rhapsody (Xijing Fu): The stubborn trees were crushed. Also, a branch or twig. Strategies of the Warring States (Zhanguoce): A peach wood branch and an earthen figurine. Also, an earthen twig, something not real. Zhuangzi, Tian Zifang: What I have learned is merely an earthen twig. Also, fierce. Dialects (Fangyan): In the regions of Han and Zhao, this is called geng. Huainanzi, Original Way (Yuan Dao): Hoeing away the strong and fierce. Textual Research: Rites of Zhou, Offices of Heaven: The female priest invokes the warding off of disaster at the proper time, performing sacrifices to remove periodic disease. Carefully corrected to match the original text: remove disease and misfortune.