Si Collection, Lower Volume Radical: Dog (quǎn) 14 strokes Page 716, Entry 13 Broad Rhymes (Guangyun): Pronounced bo. Collected Rhymes (Jiyun): Pronounced bo. Broad Rhymes (Guangyun): The name of a dog. Also in Collected Rhymes (Jiyun): The name of a beast. It resembles a human and has wings. Classic of Mountains and Seas (Shanhaijing): On Base Mountain there is a beast; its shape is like a sheep, with nine tails and four ears, and its eyes are on its back. It is named bo yi. Wearing it prevents fear. Commentary: Guo Pu says: Bo yi, pronounced bo shi. Note: The Broad Rhymes (Guangyun) records a variant form. Also in Collected Rhymes (Jiyun) and Rhymes Collected (Yunhui): Pronounced po. Sima Xiangru, Rhapsody on the Sir of Nothingness (Zixu Fu): The tigers and bo qie. Commentary: Notes on the Collected Explanations (Suoyin) say: Bo is pronounced pu ge. Collected Rhymes (Jiyun): Originally written as bo. Sometimes written as fu. Also in Collected Rhymes (Jiyun): Pronounced pao. Notes on Sima Xiangru, Rhapsody on the Sir of Nothingness (Zixu Fu): Xu Guang says: Bo is pronounced pi wo. Note: The Book of Han (Hanshu) writes it as ba. See the entry for the character bo under the Grass Radical for further details.