Taxonomy of meanings for 徽:　　

Additional information about 徽

說文解字: 【徽】，衺幅也。一曰：三糾繩也。从糸、微省聲。 【許歸切】

Criteria
• PERSONAL NAME
  

  1. The general word for a name for a person of any kind is míng 名. Míng 名 refers specifically to the name given to a person at the age of 3 months, and this name is informally chosen and often not chosen with great care. There are fixed rules for exactly when the mí2ng 名 of a person is to be used and when one must use the zì 字. (LIJI)

  2. Xìng 姓 refers to the general name of the clan defined by one's male lineage.

  3. Originally, it is said, there were only 25 surnames xìng 姓 established by the Son of Heaven. With time, the members of one of the original xìng 姓 gave different names shì 氏 to their sub-lineages so that shì 氏 came to refer to sub-lineages under a given xìng 姓. From late Warring States times onwards, xìng 姓 and shì 氏 came to be confused.

  4. Zì 字 refers to the courtesy name given to a person at the age of 20 for boys, and 15 for girls, and the purpose of this was to give the person an appellation that would distinguish her or him from the other members of the family and give him an identity. The zì 字 or a person was therefore something that was taken great care with.

  5. Hào 號 refers to an informal style or given name which is first given to a person as an adult for various social purposes. Among the typical hào 號 there came to be bié hào 別號, shǐ hào 諡號, miào hào 廟號 "temple name", post-Buddhist zūn hào 尊號, huī hào 徽號 and so on. The purpose of hào 號 was to express the way of thinking and the special character of a person.

• ROPE
  

  1. Probably the most general word for the rope is shéng 繩. The term originally referred to the finer rope made of silk or hemp (which was used for instance to make a fishing net), but in Han times it became to be used for all kinds of ropes. Note that ropes in ancient China were like our modern ropes usually twisted of two strips.

  2. Suǒ 索 refers to the rope larger and more crude than shéng 繩; it was usually made not of silk or hemp, but of grass, wooden, or bamboo strips.

  3. Jīu 糾 according to SHUOWEN refers to the rope twisted of three strips. In fact, this explanation is doubtful, and it seems that while the word refers to the ropes generally, it particularly points to the fact that they are twisted of strips. The word is usually used like a verb "to twist, to weave together", sometimes in meaning to collect together.

  4. Táo 綯 is the word for rope which occurs in SHIJING together with suǒ 索.

  5. Huī 徽 and mò (written like 絲 and 墨 ) both refer to the crude ropes which were usually used for punishments. The former can be also used like a verb "to bind", the latter can also refer to the crude rope used for other purposes, like a reins for instance.

  6. Léi 縲 refer to the large and crude rope used to bind up criminals.

  7. Jiān 緘 refers to the rope for tying up basket or a box.

  8. Téng 滕 refers to the rope used to tie up something.

  9. Huà 繣 refers to the cord for tying something.

  10. Guàn 貫 refers to the string to hang cash on, and also to the cash string like a unit; the oldest evidence I have found is in SHIJI.

  11. Qiǎng 繈 refers to the cash string (mentioned already in GUANZI and SHIJI.

  12. Zhí 縶 refers in SHIJING and ZUO to the rope used to tie the horse.

  13. Mí (written like 糜 but with 絲 instead of 米 ) refers to the rope for leading cattle.

  14. Zhèn 紖 is another term for the rope used to lead cattle.

  15. Xiè 紲 refers to the rope used to hold a dog.

  16. Xián 弦 refers either to the string of a bow (usually made of oxen veins), or to the string of a musical instrument:.

  NB: Finds of ropes are of course extremely rare. Ropes made of grass were found in the Neolithic site of Hemudu (near Shanghai; HUANG 1995: 1420), another other is known from the early Shang site at Mengzhuang in Henan (references and illustrations TO BE FOUND)]