Wu Collection, Middle Volume Radical: White (bái) 皎 Kangxi stroke count: 11 Page 788, Entry 08 Pronounced jiǎo (rising tone). According to Explaining Graphs and Analyzing Characters (Shuowen Jiezi), it refers to the whiteness of the moon. Book of Odes (Shijing): The moon comes out, bright and clear. Commentary: It refers to moonlight. It also refers to sunlight. Wang Bao, Nine Laments (Jiu Huai): Drying the white sun, bright and clear. Additionally: Defined by Wide Dictionary (Guangya) as white and bright. Book of Odes (Shijing): Bright, bright white colt. Commentary: It means clean and white. Chu Ci, The Fisherman (Yufu): How can I take my own purity, so bright and white, and let it be covered by the dust of this worldly age? Records of the Grand Historian (Shiji), Biography of Qu Yuan: Written as hào (falling-rising tone). Also a surname. History of the Five Dynasties (Wudai Shi), Annals of the Southern Han: Jiao Gongxian, a commander of the Jiaozhou guard. Gem Dictionary (Yupian): Commonly written as jiǎo (rising tone). Collected Rhymes (Jiyun): Sometimes written as jiǎo (rising tone).