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俑
U+4FD1
Seal script

Radical:人+ 7 strokes = 9 strokes total.
References:Guangyun: p.31#35 p.238#39 Kangxi: p.104#25 Cihai: p.106r6c04 GSR: 1185.j Hanyu: v1,p0168#02
Composition:Left: 亻, right: 甬.
Mandarin:yǒng ㄩㄥˇ
Cantonese:jung2
Shuowen:《人部》俑：痛也。从人甬聲。
Guangyun:《廣韻·上平聲·東·通》俑：俑偶人。又音勇。
《廣韻·上聲·腫·勇》俑：木人送葬設關而能跳踊故名之出埤蒼。
Kangxi:《康熙字典·人部·七》俑：《集韻》《韻會》《正韻》𠀤尹竦切，音勇。從葬木偶。《禮·檀弓》孔子謂爲芻靈者，善爲俑者不仁。《註》芻靈，束草爲人形，以爲死者之從，略似人形。俑則設機發動，全似人，能踊躍也。今倡端不善曰作俑。又《廣韻》《正韻》𠀤他紅切，音通。《說文》痛也。
Fanqie:他紅 (《廣韻·上平聲·東·通》) 余隴 (《廣韻·上聲·腫·勇》)
Equivalent readings:勇 (《四書章句集注·孟子集注·梁惠王章句上》)
Unihan definition:wooden figure buried with dead

Example usage

《孟子·梁惠王上》:仲尼曰：『始作俑者，其無後乎！』
Zhong Ni said, 'Was he not without posterity who first made wooden images to bury with the dead?'
《禮記·檀弓下》:孔子謂「為芻靈者善」，謂「為俑者不仁」，不殆於用人乎哉？
Confucius said that the making of the straw figures was good, and that the making of the (wooden) automaton was not benevolent. Was there not a danger of its leading to the use of (living) men?
《白虎通德論·三教》:孔子曰：「為明器者善，為俑者不仁。」
《論衡·薄葬》:俑則偶人，象類生人，故魯用偶人葬，孔子嘆。
《說文解字·人部》:俑：痛也。
《通典》:太極元年六月，右司郎中唐紹上疏曰：「孔子曰『明器者，備物而不可用也』，謂芻靈者善，謂為俑者不仁。」
《四書章句集注》:仲尼曰：『始作俑者，其無後乎！』
《封神演義》:迷惑天子，朝歌暮舞，沉湎酒色，拒諫殺忠，壞成湯之大典，國家之安危，是皆汝之作俑也。
《廣韻·通》:俑：俑偶人。
《太平御覽·芻靈》:孔子謂「為芻靈者善」，謂「為俑者不仁」，不殆于用人乎哉？
《太平廣記·曹惠》:是宣城太守謝家俑偶。
《朱子語類·法制》:不從，乃率其子姪哭於家廟，以為作俑之罪，祖先將不祀矣！
《宋景文公筆記》:勿得作方相俑人陳列衣服器用累吾之儉。
《墨子閒詁·經說上》:《越絕書記吳王占夢》云「桐不為器用，但為俑，當與人俱葬」。
《康熙字典·七》:俑：《集韻》《韻會》《正韻》𠀤尹竦切，音勇。
《儒林外史》:陳木南道：「論起這件事，卻也是杜先生作俑。」

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