You Collection, Lower Volume Radical: City (yì) Kangxi Strokes: 18 Page: 1276, Entry 21 Rhyming dictionaries (Guangyun, Jiyun, Yunhui, Zhengyn) indicate the pronunciation is mo gè qiè, sounding like mo. County name. Records of the Grand Historian (Shiji), House of Zhao: "exchanged [territory] with Yan and Mo." Annotation: "all belonged to Zhuo Commandery." Book of Han (Hanshu), Treatise on Geography: "Zhuo Commandery had Mo county." Correct Character Compendium (Zhengzitong): In the 13th year of Kaiyuan (725 CE) of the Tang dynasty, the Jixian scholar Wei Bao was ordered to reform ancient scripts. Because Mo (鄚) resembled Zheng (郑), the radical City (邑) was removed, making it Mo (莫). Today's Renqiu County in Mozhou is this ancient Mo territory. Also a surname. Correction: In the Records of the Grand Historian (Shiji), House of Zhao, the phrase "燕鄚易" (Yan Mo Yi) should be amended to "与燕鄚易" (Yu Yan Mo Yi) by adding the character 与 (yǔ, 'with') before 燕 (Yan) to match the original text.