Wu Collection, Middle Volume
Radical: Eye (mù)
Character: Huo
Kangxi Strokes: 19
Page 819, Entry 28
Pronounced kuang (entering tone). Defined in Explaining Graphs and Analyzing Characters (Shuowen Jiezi) as looking with wide-open eyes. It also refers to the phrase huo-shan, meaning the light of lightning. Mu Hua's Rhapsody on the Sea (Haifu) writes: Sunlight is extinguished, electric lights flash, various strange glowing colors appear, obscuring the darkness, with light flickering unsteadily. The commentary notes that this describes various strange entities emitting light and color, dazzling the human heart without fixed patterns. It is also written in a variant form. According to Collected Rhymes (Jiyun), it is also pronounced huo, with the same sound as huo. It describes the appearance of a gaze that is hasty and panicked. Sometimes also written in a variant form (huo).