Chou Collection, Lower Volume Radical: Woman (nǚ) 姥 Kangxi Strokes: 9 Page 260, Entry 09 The same as mu (mother). Also refers to a mountain name. Mount Tianmu is located to the east of Xinchang County in Shaoxing; Daoists refer to it as the sixteenth blessed land. On its stone cliffs are tadpole-like scripts, so high up that they cannot be recognized. Xie Lingyun poem: At dusk I lodge in Shanzhong; at dawn I ascend Mount Tianmu. The mountain rises high into the clouds and mist; where can one seek a return date? The same as mu (mother). Various rhyme dictionaries distinguish mu and lao as two separate characters.