Wei Collection, Lower Volume Radical: Meat (ròu) Kangxi Strokes: 13 Page 985, Entry 02 Pronounced dou (falling tone) Shuowen Jiezi (Analytical Dictionary of Characters): The back of the neck. Yupian (Jade Chapters): The neck. Boya (Broad Refinements): The neck; the back of the neck. Zuo Zhuan (Chronicle of Zuo): Two arrows caught in the neck. Annotation: The neck. Records of the Grand Historian (Shiji): Exerted himself until he broke his own neck and died. Annotation: The neck. This is a Qi dialect term. Also, neck-calling. Rites of Zhou (Zhouli), section on the Artisans in the Winter Division: Those that make sounds from the neck. Annotation: Neck-calling refers to a species of frog or toad. Also, a type of bird. Erya (Literary Expositor): The white-necked crow. Commentary: Those with white necks that fly in flocks are called swallow crows. The swallow crow is the white-necked crow. Also, Boya (Broad Refinements): To overlap; to alternate. Also: to serve as food. Also, following rhyme dictionaries, the sound rhymes with du (rising tone). Liu Zongyuan, Ode to the Ox: Mooing with a sound, the yellow bell fills the neck. Pushing against the rising sun, plowing a hundred acres a day. (Note: "Acre" rhymes with the sound mu). Also, rhymes with the sound du (falling tone). Yang Xiong, Fu on Feather Hunting: Horns clashing and foreheads bumping, trembling in fear. Spirits fleeing and souls lost, striking the spokes and obstructing the neck.