Wei Collection, Middle Volume Radical: Silk (mì) Character: mo Kangxi strokes: 21 Page 942, Entry 29 Pronounced mo. Guangyun (Comprehensive Rhymes): Defined as rope or cord. Yupian (Jade Chapters): Also written in a variant form. Book of Changes (Yijing), Hexagram of Water (Kan): Bound with rope. Shuowen Jiezi (Explanation of Graphs and Analysis of Characters): A rope of three strands is called a cord, and a rope of two strands is called a mo. Both are names for types of ropes. Zilin (Forest of Characters): A rope made of three twisted strands. Strategies of the Warring States (Zhan Guo Ce): You hold the long rope and pull. Commentary: Refers to a rope. Records of the Grand Historian (Shiji), Biography of Jia Yi: Misfortune and good fortune are how different from tangled ropes. Commentary: Like ropes twisted together, they are attached to one another.