Si Collection, Upper Volume Radical: Water (shuǐ) Entry: Lao Kangxi stroke count: 11 Page 625, Entry 13 According to the Collection of Rhymes (Jiyun), pronounced lao. The term laolang describes the appearance of being startled or disturbed. In the Western Metropolis Rhapsody (Xijing fu) by Zhang Heng: The knotweed and the water-pepper are in a state of laolang (disturbed agitation).