Wei Collection, Lower Volume Radical: Boat (zhōu) Character: Dao Kangxi Stroke Count: 8 Page 1009, Entry 02 According to Expanded Rhymes (Guangyun), Rhyme Collection (Jiyun), and Rhyme Compilation (Yunhui), and Corrected Rhymes (Zhengyun), pronounced dao. In the Jade Chapters (Yupian), it is described as a small boat shaped like a knife. In the Poem Presented to Wang Guiyang by Wu Jun, it is written: Traveling clothes soaked in dawn dew, the traveler's boat breasts the night rapids. Additionally, according to the Rhyme Collection (Jiyun), it is sometimes written in a variant form. It is generally used interchangeably with the character for knife. In the Book of Odes (Shijing), in the section Odes of Wei, it is written: It cannot even accommodate a knife. In the Explanation of Names (Shiming), it states: A vessel with a capacity of two hundred hu or more is called a ding, while one with a capacity of three hundred hu is called a dao.