Zi Collection, Page Position: Lower Radical: Again (yòu) Kangxi stroke count: 18 Page 167, Entry 12 Pronounced cong. Shuowen Jiezi (Explanation of Simple and Compound Characters): To gather. Composed of the character for dense growth and the character for take. Book of Documents (Shujing), Chapter on No Ease: This gathers upon his own person. Also a surname. Cong Fan, Governor of Chuzhou during the Northern and Southern Dynasties. Also the name of a terrace. Located in Handan. Also written as a variant form (cong). History of the Former Han (Hanshu), Biography of Dongfang Shuo: Gathering rare and strange things. Also written as a variant form (cong). History of the Former Han (Hanshu), Biography of Xifu Gong: The thickets and brambles were dense. Annotation: The commentary on the Book of Odes (Shijing), Chapter on Ge Tan, states: Shrubs are called cong. Also, in rhyming supplements, it shares the rhyme with chuang. Han Yu, Poem on this day being worth cherishing: Desolate for ten thousand miles, how can a meeting be found? The waters of the Huai flow gently, the mountains of Chu are straight and thick. The word feng is pronounced fang. Rhyme Collection (Yunhui): Later generations mistakenly used the forms zou or zui; both are incorrect. Mr. Mao states: The character for dense growth is written at the top with four vertical strokes, two long and two short. Using the character for tied hair is incorrect. In the original carving, the character for dense growth had the character for sheep at the bottom.