Chou Collection, Upper Volume Radical: Mouth (kǒu) Character: Chao Kangxi strokes: 7 Page 179, Entry 08 Broad Rhymes (Guangyun): Pronounced miao (third tone). Collected Rhymes (Jiyun): Pronounced miao (third tone). Jade Chapters (Yupian): The cry of a pheasant. Correct Meaning Thoroughfare (Zhengzitong): In the Book of Odes (Shijing), Beifeng section, there is a line referring to the crying of a pheasant, originally written with the character for pheasant-cry, but commonly written as chao. Note: The sounds for the pheasant-cry character and chao are different in the Broad Rhymes (Guangyun), and the Correct Meaning Thoroughfare (Zhengzitong) is incorrect to conflate them. Also, Broad Rhymes (Guangyun): Pronounced chao (third tone). Collected Rhymes (Jiyun): Pronounced chao (third tone). Refers to sound. Also, Collected Rhymes (Jiyun): Pronounced chao (first tone). A personal name. A high official of the State of Song named Chao. Also, Collected Rhymes (Jiyun): Pronounced chao (first tone). Originally written as a variant form (chao), meaning frivolous or lacking gravity.