Mao Collection, Middle Volume Radical: Hand (shǒu) Kangxi stroke count: 17 Page 458, Entry 16 Pronounced dǎng (falling tone). The meaning is to organize or tidy up. It is also written in a variant form (píng dǎng). Book of Jin (Jinshu), Biography of Ruan Fu: Zu Yue, whose nature was greedy for wealth, was in the middle of clearing away and storing his belongings when a guest arrived; he was unable to finish tidying and hiding them in time.