Mao Collection, Lower Volume Radical: Tapping (pū) Kangxi Strokes: 16 Page 475, Entry 18 Pronounced jiao (rising tone). Shuowen Jiezi (Explanation of Simple and Compound Characters): To connect or link together. Classic of History (Shangshu), chapter Oath at Fei (Feishi): Connect your shields. Commentary: Apply cords to your shields. Sub-commentary: Zheng says: Mounded, meaning to tie or connect. Wang Su says: The shield cords should have ornaments to hold them. Note: In the Oath at Fei, the phrase connect your shields, the commentary explains as applying cords to your shields. The sub-commentary states that to connect your shields means to apply work to the shield cords. Cords are like silk ribbons but smaller, tied to the shield to hold it; thus, what is tied to the shield is called mounded. Guangyun (Broad Rhymes): Mounded, defined as a shield. Jiyun (Collection of Rhymes): Pronounced qiao (falling tone). A shield is called mounded. It seems that mounded is a shield, but this is incorrect. One should follow the interpretation in the sub-commentary to the Classic of History. Also Jiyun (Collection of Rhymes): Pronounced qiao (falling tone). Meaning is the same.