| roots | pinyin, English |
| 爿犬 | qiáng split wood, qûan dog |
| synonyms | |
| 象 | xìang : image |
| 形 | xíng : shape |
| exceptions to formless form, form of the formless: | |
| shapeless shapes | AW |
| shape that has no shape | L1 |
| shape without form | DC |
| form of No-Form | WW |
| {omits] | AL |
JL [form]: 11:10 'yi wei shi' 'to form an apartment'; 21:01 'The grandest forms of active force'; 21:15 'Things form and never know decay'; 25:03 'How still it was and formless'.
PC: 'róng 容' 14:01 'Vast virtue's form'; 'xìang 象' 35:01 'Who holdeth fast to the great Form' ('image' in 14:16) and 41;22.
AW: 'xìang 象' 21:06 'Yet latent in it are forms' ('image' in 14:16) and 41:22; 'hùn 混 25:01; 'wú yôu 無有' 43:04 'That-which-is-without-form penetrates that-which-has-no-crevice'; 'xíng 形' 51:03.
LY: 'jìao 徼' 01:11 'In order to see its manifest forms'; 'xìang 象' 21:06 'Yet latent in it are forms' ('image' in 14:16) and 41:22; 'wú yôu 無有' 43:04 'That-which-is-without-form penetrates that-which-has-no-crevice'; 'xíng 形' 51:03.
DL also translates 'wëi' (14:06) as 'formless'.