Shen Collection, Lower Volume Radical: Insect (chóng) Entry: Ba Kangxi Stroke Count: 10 Page 1077, Entry 14 Pronounced pa. Refers to a type of shellfish. Book of Filial Piety and Glossaries (Erya), section on fish, records: This shellfish is broad and convex in the center. Note: The meaning of kui is broad in the middle and narrow at both ends. Also pronounced ba. The meaning is the same. Textual research: The Erya, section on fish, states that the ba is broad. The note states that it is broad in the center. Here, the two characters have been corrected to read as kui according to the original text.