Si Collection, Lower Volume Radical: Dog (quǎn) 狛 Kangxi stroke count: 9 Page 709, Entry 16 Broad Rimes (Guangyun) and Collected Rimes (Jiyun) state: pronounced po (entering tone). Explanation from Analytical Dictionary of Chinese Characters (Shuowen Jiezi): Resembles a wolf, skilled at driving herds of sheep. Derived from the radical Dog, with bai serving as the phonetic component. Pronounced like nie. Ning Yan reads it as bo. Also, Collected Rimes (Jiyun) states: pronounced bo (entering tone). Also pronounced bi (entering tone). Also pronounced hua (falling tone). The meanings are the same. Collected Rimes (Jiyun) notes that it is sometimes written in a variant form.