Chou Collection, Lower Volume Radical: Woman (nü) Kangxi stroke count: 10 Page 263, Entry 10 Pronounced e. Meaning: beautiful. Yangzi: Dialects (Fangyan): In the Qin region, beauty is called e. There is also Star E, who was the mother of the Emperor Shaohao. Ehuang was the daughter of Emperor Yao and the wife of Emperor Shun. See Records of the Grand Historian (Shiji). There is also Chang E, who was the concubine of Hou Yi. Book of the Later Han (Hou Hanshu): Astronomy Treatise: Chang E stole the elixir of immortality from Hou Yi and fled to the moon, where she turned into a toad. There is also Kua E, a goddess in heaven. See Liezi: Questions of Tang (Tangwen). There is also Han E, a singer. Record of Investigations of Things (Bowuzhi): Han E traveled to the state of Qi to sing for food; after she departed, the reverberations of her singing lingered around the rafters for three days without fading. There is also the surname E. See Garden of Surnames (Xingyuan).