You Collection, Upper Volume Radical: Speech (yán) Mo Kangxi Strokes: 18 Page 1177, Entry 06 Ancient form: Wu Tangyun, Zhengyun: Pronounced mo. Jiyun, Yunhui: Pronounced mou. Pronounced mo. Shuowen: To deliberate or plan. Xu says: To consider a matter and devise a plan is called mou; to broadly discuss and settle upon a plan is called mo. Book of Documents (Yushu): Contains the Great Plan of Yu (Dayu Mo) and the Plan of Gaoyao (Gaoyao Mo). Commentary: Mo means to plan. The Great Yu planned the nine achievements, and Gaoyao planned the nine virtues. Book of Odes (Shijing), Deya: Vast plans settle the mandate. Rites of Zhou (Zhouli), Autumn Offices, Great Minister: In the summer, the ancestral temples oversee the plans of the world. Also, Erya, Explanations of Ancient Words: To be false. Commentary: To plan without loyalty. Also: None. History of the Southern Tang (Nantangshu), Biographies of Cliques: The Yue people have no faith, it is not yet time for a quick attack. Commentary: No faith. This is a dialectal pronunciation from Min. Also, Jiyun, Yunhui: Pronounced mo (departing tone). History of the Former Han (Qianhanshu), Narrative Biography: The ancestral temples of the Han, Shusun was the planner. Reforming since the time of Emperor Yuan, the scholars changed the measures. Pronounced mu. Also, Jiyun, Leipian: Pronounced mo. Also means to plan. History of the Former Han (Qianhanshu), Ban Gu, You Tong Fu: To plan the great principles of the former sages. Shigu read it as such. Also, rhyming with mu, pronounced mu. See Cai Yong, Inscription for Hu Guang. Jiyun: Sometimes written in a variant form (mo).