Yin Collection, Lower Volume Radical: Bow (gōng) 彃; Kangxi strokes: 14; Page 360, Entry 31 Pronounced bi. Shuowen Jiezi (Shuowen) states that the meaning is to shoot an arrow. In the Questions to Heaven (Tianwen) section of the Verses of Chu (Chuci), it asks how the archer Hou Yi shot down the suns. According to the Classified Chapters (Leipian), another interpretation refers to a bowstring.