Wei Collection, Lower Volume Radical: Boat (zhōu) 11 Kangxi strokes Page 1010, Entry 12 Pronounced bai. In Broad Rhymes (Guangyun), a large sea vessel. In Collected Rhymes (Jiyun), a vessel used by southern barbarians to traverse the sea is called a bo. In Common Explanations (Tongsu wen), during the Jin dynasty, this was called a bo. In Collected Rhymes (Jiyun), sometimes also written in a variant form (bo). Also, in Rhyme Supplements (Yunbu), pronounced bi. From Ouyang Xiu’s Poem on a White Parrot: Among them, the one sent in the imperial carriage is the rarest; in what year did this bird follow the sea vessel? Who could travel through all the peaks of the sea, how could the ten thousand strange and thousand mysterious things be exhausted?