Mao Collection, Middle Volume Radical: Hand (shǒu) Kangxi Strokes: 11 Page 433, Entry 17 Pronounced luo (entering tone). Shuowen Jiezi (Explanation of Script and Elucidation of Characters): To take easily. Guangyun (Broad Rhymes of the Guangyun): To stroke or gather with the hand. Book of Odes (Shijing), Zhou Nan section: Picking and gathering plantain, we gather them. Zhu Xi's Commentary: To gather the seeds. Shigu (Exegesis of the Odes): To gather by moving the fingers across. Also, in the Bin Feng section of the Book of Odes: The cogon grass that I gather. Also, to rub. Pan Yue, Ode to the Sheng: Rubbing and pressing the bamboo flute. Commentary: The appearance of the fingers moving over the holes of the sheng. Also, according to Jiyun (Collected Rhymes): Pronounced lie. To gather. Originally written as luo, meaning to gather with five fingers.