Huan is composed of 玉 yü jade as radical with a common phonetic. It means a bracelet or any kind of ring; hence it comes to be used as a verb.
254d. | 至 | 帝 | 昺 | until the reign of the Emperor Ping. | |
Chih4 | ti4 | ping3 | |||
Reach | ruler | ping |
Chin see line 94.
Ti see line 180.
Ping is composed of 日 jih sun as radical, with 丙 ping a cyclical character as phonetic. It means glorious, but is here the personal name of the child Emperor, the last of the Sungs, who was drowned, together with his faithful Minister 陸秀夫 Lu Hsiu-fu, in A.D. 1279, in order to escape falling into the hands of the conquering Mongols.
254e. | 元 | 世 | 祖 | Shih Tsu of the Yüan dynasty | |
Yüan1 | shih4 | tsu3 | |||
Yüan | generation | ancestor |
Shih see line 177.
Tsu see line 89. [Shih Tsu is the temple name of Kublai Khan, who reigned over China A.D. 1260–1294.]
254f. | 始 | 正 | 位 | was the first to actually occupy the throne; | |
Shih3 | chêng4 | wei4 | |||
Begin | proper | seat |
Shih see line 134.
Chêng see line 326.
Wei is composed of 人 jen man as radical, with 立 li (line 306) as phonetic. See line 254e.