You Collection, Upper Volume Radical: Horn (jiǎo) Kangxi stroke count: 22 Page 1145, Entry 22 Tang Dynasty Rhymes (Tangyun) and Collected Rhymes (Jiyun) state it is pronounced lu (level tone). Explaining Graphs and Analyzing Characters (Shuowen) states it means the horn of an animal. It is also a county name. History of the Former Han Dynasty (Qianhan), Treatise on Geography, notes that Lude was a county under the jurisdiction of Zhangye Commandery. Annotated by Shigu, it notes that the Lude canal flows west into the Zeqiang valley. It is also pronounced li (entering tone) according to the Jade Compendium (Yupian), the Extended Rhymes (Guangyun), and the Collected Rhymes (Jiyun). The Classified Compendium (Leipian) states that the tip of an animal horn is called lu.