Wei Collection, Middle Volume Radical: Net (wǎng) Luo Kangxi Stroke Count: 20 Page 950, Entry 12 Guangyun: Pronounced luo. Jiyun, Yunhui: Pronounced luo. Zhengyun: Pronounced luo. Shuowen: To use a net of silk to catch birds. The ancient Mang family first created the net. Erya, Explaining Implements: A net for catching birds is called luo. Note: Refers to using a net to trap or cover. Book of Odes (Shijing), Odes of Wang: The wild pheasant falls into the net. Rites of Zhou (Zhouli), Summer Offices: The official known as the Luo Clan manages the use of nets for trapping birds and sparrows. Also, Leipian: Refers to silk fabrics. Shiming: The pattern of luo silk is sparse like a net. Strategies of the Warring States (Zhanguoce): The inner palace was filled with luo and silk, dragging trailing robes of patterned silk and gauze. Also, Guangya: Luo means to arrange in order. Songs of Chu (Chuci), Nine Songs: Growing in clusters below the hall. Note: Arranged in rows and growing. Also, a state name. Zuo Commentary (Zuozhuan), Twelfth Year of Duke Huan: The people of the State of Luo wanted to attack them. Note: Luo is a state of the Xiong surname, located in the mountains west of Yicheng County; it later relocated. Also, a river name. Records of the Grand Historian (Shiji), Biography of Qu Yuan: Thereupon he cast himself into the Miluo River. Note: The Mi River is in the land of Luo, hence it is called Miluo. Also, Silla, the name of an Eastern Yi tribal state. Book of Tang (Tangshu), Biographies of the Eastern Yi: Silla is a descendant of the Bianhan and lived in the Lelang region of the Han Dynasty. Also, a surname. Xing-shi Ji-jiu Pian: The Luo family are descendants of Zhuanxu, enfeoffed in the land of Luo, which is modern Fang Prefecture. Their descendants took the enfeoffed land as their surname. Also, Luoluo, a beast name. Classic of Mountains and Seas (Shanhaijing): In the North Sea there is a beast shaped like a tiger, named Luoluo. Pianya: A green tiger is called Luoluo. Also, Anluo, a fruit name. Bencao (Materia Medica): A type of pear, yellow in color, resembling the goose pear. Also, Jiyun: Pronounced li. The meaning is the same. Also, Jiyun: Pronounced luo. Luo (to patrol) is sometimes written in a simplified form as luo. It means to patrol.