Hai Collection, Middle Volume Radical: Bird (niǎo) Guo Kangxi strokes: 17 Page 1487, Entry 01 Broad Rhymes (Guangyun), Collected Rhymes (Jiyun), Rhyme Meetings (Yunhui), Correct Rhymes (Zhengyun): Pronounced kuo. Jade Chapters (Yupian): Cang is the same as guo. Approaching Elegance (Erya), Explaining Birds: Cang is a mi-guo bird. Guo commentary: Now it is called a cang-guo. Ban Gu, Western Capital Rhapsody (Xidu fu): Cang, guo, you, and yi birds. Sima Xiangru, Rhapsody on Master Void (Zixu fu): A pair of cang birds descends. Commentary: They are cang-guo birds. Also, Broad Rhymes (Guangyun): Pronounced gua. The cang-guo is a bird with feathers growing in reverse and nine tails. Outer Commentary to the Han School (Hanshi waizhuan): Confucius crossed the river and saw a bird that looked strange, and none of the crowd could identify it. Confucius had once heard a person by the river singing: Oh cang, oh guo, reverse feathers and a thin tail, one body and nine tails long. This refers to the cang-guo.