Shen Collection, Upper Volume Radical: Grass (cǎo) An Kangxi stroke count: 17 Page 1052, Entry 15 According to the Collection of Rhymes (Jiyun), this is the same as the character pronounced an. According to the Classified Compendium (Leipian), a round-shaped house is called an. It is also written in a variant form (an). According to the Records of Shu (Shu Zhi), annotations by Pei Songzhi: Zhuge Liang ordered the army to lower the banners and stop the drums, and did not permit them to walk out from the curtains of the encampment at will.