You Collection, Upper Volume Radical: Speech (yán) Jue Kangxi stroke count: 19 Page 1180, Entry 25 Pronounced jue Shuowen Jiezi (Shuowen) states: It means power-based deception. In the Yi and Liang regions, it is said that deceiving the world is called jue. Guangya (Comprehensive Refinements) states: It means to deceive. Yangzi Fangyan (Regional Dialects) states: It means deceit. East and west of the pass, some call it jue. Analects (Lunyu) states: Duke Wen of Jin was deceitful and not upright; Duke Huan of Qi was upright and not deceitful. Zheng Xuan commentary states: It means deceit. Zhu Xi commentary states: It means cunning. Records of the Grand Historian (Shiji), Biography of Sima Xiangru: Unusual objects, strange, bizarre, extraordinary, and infinitely changing. Book of Han (Qianhan), Biography of Wang Ji: Each takes what serves the moment; power and deceit are unrestrained. Xunzi, Da Lue chapter: Serving the jealous and ignorant is called deceptive association. Han Feizi, Gu Fen chapter: This is how subordinates deceive their rulers to facilitate their own private interests. Commentary states: Setting up deceptive schemes to mislead the ruler. Yu Pian (Jade Chapters) states: Deceptive remonstrance means to equivocate and not speak directly. Classic of Poetry (Shijing), Guo Feng, Guan Ju Preface: Emphasize literary refinement and use deceptive remonstrance. Also, yu jue means winding and tortuous. Book of Han (Qianhan), Biography of Yang Xiong: Exceeding the clarity of the winding and tortuous. Bo Ya (Broad Refinements) states: Jue hui means beautiful. Jue gu: The definition is detailed in the annotation for the character gu under the Horn radical. Jiyun (Collection of Rhymes) states: Sometimes simplified as yu. Detailed in the annotation for the character yu under the Spear radical. Dushu Tong (General Rules for Reading) states: Also written as the character jiao. Book of Changes (Yijing), Kui hexagram, Wang Bi commentary: Grand, strange, deceitful, and monstrous. Interpretation of Sounds (Shiwen) states: It means deceit or deviation. Originally also written as the character jiao. Xunzi, Ru Xiao chapter: Interrupt the virtue and set the order. Commentary states: It means to cut off virtue. Jue is the same as the character jiao.