Shen Collection, Upper Volume Radical: Grass (cǎo) Lei Kangxi strokes: 17 Page 1053, Entry 11 According to Collection of Rhymes (Jiyun), pronounced luo. According to Correct Rhymes (Zhengyun), pronounced luo, with a sound identical to the word for spiral shell (luo). It refers to a basket used for carrying soil. In the Discourses on Salt and Iron (Yantie lun), there is the sentence, With noses cut off and filling the basket. It is also pronounced lun, with the same meaning. Sometimes also written in a variant form (lei).