Hai Collection, Middle Volume Radical: Fish (yú) Character: hou Kangxi stroke count: 17 Page 1468, Entry 30 Broad Rhymes (Guangyun): Pronounced hou (falling tone) Collected Rhymes (Jiyun): Pronounced hou (falling tone), pronunciation is identical to that of the base form. Erudite Refinements (Boya): Records that hou is the same as the base form. Also according to Collected Rhymes (Jiyun) and Rhyme Collection (Yunhui): Pronounced gou (falling tone), pronunciation is identical to that of the base form. The meaning is the same.