Si Collection, Upper Volume Radical: Water (shuǐ) Ba Kangxi stroke count: 25 Page 664, Entry 03 Broad Rimes (Guangyun), Collected Rimes (Jiyun), Dictionary of Rhymes (Yunhui), and Correct Rimes (Zhengyun) all provide the pronunciation ba (falling tone). Name of a river. Commentary on the Classic of Waterways (Shuijing Zhu) states that the water originates in the Lantian Valley of Lantian County, which is the place known for having an abundance of jade. Commonly written as the variant ba.