Mao Collection, Middle Volume Radical: Hand (shǒu) Kangxi strokes: 15 Page 452, Entry 04 Tang Rhymes (Tangyun) and Collected Rhymes (Jiyun): Pronounced jiao (rising tone). Explaining Graphs and Analyzing Characters (Shuowen Jiezi): To strike while grabbing. Sometimes written in a variant form. Also Tang Rhymes (Tangyun): Pronounced zhao. Collected Rhymes (Jiyun): Pronounced zhao. Same meaning. Also Tang Rhymes (Tangyun): Pronounced liao. Collected Rhymes (Jiyun): Pronounced liao. Same meaning. Also refers to movement. Also Tang Rhymes (Tangyun) and Rhyme Collection (Yunhui): Pronounced chao. Collected Rhymes (Jiyun): Pronounced chao. Same as the characters for extracting or copying. To take. Rhapsody on the Eastern Capital (Dongjing Fu) by Zhang Heng: Extracting and gathering. Also Collected Rhymes (Jiyun): Pronounced lao. Same meaning. Originally written with the component for nest to form this character.