Mao Collection, Middle Volume Radical: Hand (shǒu) Kangxi stroke count: 14 Page 446, Entry 14 Pronounced bo. Shuowen Jiezi (Explanation of Simple and Compound Characters): To seek and hold. Book of Rites (Liji), Monthly Ordinances: In the first month of autumn, attend to the gathering and holding of crops. One definition is to arrive at. Book of Documents (Shujing), Counsels of Yu the Great: Striking the hand drum and playing the zither. Also means to strike or to pat. Records of the Grand Historian (Shiji), Biography of Li Si: Plucking the zither and slapping the thigh. Also means to strike with the hand. Shiming (Explanation of Names): Extending the fingers wide to strike. Zuo Commentary (Zuozhuan), 28th Year of Duke Xi: The Marquis of Jin dreamt of wrestling with the Viscount of Chu. Records of the Grand Historian (Shiji), Annals of Xiang Yu: A horsefly that can grapple an ox cannot break a louse. Also means to seize. Records of the Grand Historian (Shiji), Biography of Li Si: If one melts a hundred weights of gold, even the bandit Zhi would not seize it. Annotation: Bo is the same as to clutch or to seize. Whenever a bird strikes its prey with its wings, it must rotate its feet to seize it; thus, when people seize things, it is also called bo. Also pronounced po. Also means to strike. Also pronounced fu. Also means to strike and seize. Sometimes written as a variant form (bǔ). Also pronounced fu. Means to arrest. Also pronounced bu. The same as the character for arrest (bǔ). See the detailed annotation for the character for arrest.