There were two entries： the Xiang（乡）, Jiuye（救也） and Die（叠）, Huaiye（怀也） in Guangya （广雅）, which were all annotated as doubtful and uncertain terms by Wang nian-sun（王念孙）. The essay argues that although some scholars attempted after Wang（乡） to make the entries understood clearly, yet they all failed to do so. The essay suggests that in the first entry Xiang（乡）is Xiang（嚮 or 向）, Jiu（救） is Qiu（求） as phonetic loan characters, they actually mean pursue. In the other one Huai （怀） is Huai （坏）, its meaning is f...
