Si Collection, Lower Volume Radical: Dog (quǎn) Entry: jiǎng Kangxi Stroke Count: 15 Page 254, Entry 15 Broad Rhymes (Guangyun): Pronounced jiǎng (rising tone), sounding the same as jiǎng. Jade Chapters (Yupian): The meaning is to help, facilitate, hope, praise, and to incite a dog and encourage it. Currently written as the character variant. Broad Rhymes (Guangyun): Originally written as the character variant in Explaining Graphs and Analyzing Characters (Shuowen Jiezi). Collected Rhymes (Jiyun): Written with the Big (dà) radical as the variant jiǎng. For a detailed explanation, see the entry for the character jiǎng under the Big (dà) radical.