Si Collection, Lower Volume Radical: Dog (quǎn) Kangxi strokes: 10 Page 710, Entry 05 Tang Rhyme (Tangyun), Collection Rhyme (Jiyun), Rhyme Compilation (Yunhui), Correct Rhymes (Zhengyun): Pronounced jiao (rising tone). Shuowen Jiezi: A young dog. In the lands of the Xiongnu, there is a fierce dog with a huge mouth and a black body. Yupian: The name of a beast. A young dog. Also, Classic of Mountains and Seas (Shanhaijing): On Jade Mountain there is a beast that resembles a dog but has leopard markings and horns like an ox; it is named jiao, and its cry sounds like a barking dog; when it appears, the state will have a great harvest. Annotation: Guo Pu states: In the seventh year of the Taikang reign, Shaoling captured a beast that resembled the leopard-marked creature, had two horns, and lacked its two front legs; contemporaries called it jiao. It is suspected that this is not the same creature. Lu Nan’s Mi Meng Collection says: The cry of the jiao is like a dog barking, its markings are purely like a leopard. Also, Yupian: Cunning, crafty. Zuo Tradition (Zuozhuan), Eighth Year of Duke Cheng: As for those who are cunning and think to open up borders to profit the altars of grain and soil, what state does not have them? Annotation: Cunning and crafty people. Also, Guangyun: Mad, wild. Zuo Tradition (Zuozhuan), Fifteenth Year of Duke Xi: Chaotic spirits, wild and indignant. Annotation: Cunning means perverse. Commentary: Referring to the horse’s chaotic spirit, wild, perverse, and full of indignation. Also, Book of Odes (Shijing), Zheng Odes: I do not see the young man, but I see the cunning lad. Annotation: Cunning lad refers to one who has an appearance but no substance. Commentary: Cunning lad refers to a wily and handsome youth. Also, Yupian: Swift, robust. Strategies of the Warring States (Zhanguoce): A cunning rabbit has three burrows. Also, Explaining Names (Shiming): Cunning means to cross or intermingle; it refers to intermingling with things. Also, a person’s name. Zuo Tradition (Zuozhuan), Second Year of Duke Xuan: Kuangjiao Lu, a man of Zheng. Textual Research: Classic of Mountains and Seas (Shanhaijing) states: On Jade Mountain there is a beast named jiao; when it appears, the state will have a dog harvest. Corrected according to the original text to read great harvest.