Si Collection, Lower Volume Radical: Dog (quǎn) 15 strokes Page 717, Entry 15 According to the Expanded Rhymes (Guangyun) and the Collected Rhymes (Jiyun), it is pronounced hao. According to the Jade Chapters (Yupian), it means the barking of a dog, crying out, or roaring. According to the Expanded Rhymes (Guangyun), the original form is hao. According to the Collected Rhymes (Jiyun), it is sometimes written as a variant form. See the note under the character hao in the Mouth radical. Also, according to the Collected Rhymes (Jiyun), it is pronounced gao. Used in a person's name. Yi Hao, the Duke Ling of Jin. According to the Explanation of Text in the Gongyang Commentary (Gongyang Zhuan), for Yi Hao, the pronunciation is given as hao, and also as gao. Note that in the two commentaries it is written as Yi Gao.