Yin Collection, Lower Volume Radical: Bow (gōng) Kangxi strokes: 18 Page 361, Entry 15 Jade Tablets (Yupian) indicates it is the same as the character pronounced guo. It also refers to Guoqi, the name of the palace guard army during the Tang dynasty. Book of Tang (Tangshu), Treatise on Military Affairs states: In the eleventh year of the Kaiyuan reign period, the government mobilized the militia and able-bodied commoners from the Jingzhao, Pu, Tong, Qi, and Hua regions, along with the long-term attendants from Luzhou, totaling 120,000 men, who were known as the long-term guards. The following year, they were renamed the Guoqi. Furthermore, anything that is swift or rapid may be referred to as guo. Han Yu, Essay on Seeing Off Poverty (Song qiong wen) states: Driving through dust and riding the wind with great speed, competing in brilliance with the flash of lightning.