Yin Collection, Upper Volume Radical: Lame (wāng) Kangxi Strokes: 7 Page 298, Entry 09 Pronounced mang. Explaining Characters and Writing (Shuowen Jiezi): Refers to a dog with abundant fur. The character shape is composed of dog and three-stroke fur decoration. Xu Kai explains: the three-stroke decoration indicates long hair. Book of Odes (Shijing), Shao Nan: Do not let the long-haired dog bark. Rites of Zhou (Zhouli), Earth Offices: For all affairs requiring the destruction of sacrificial offerings during outer sacrifices, use a variegated dog. It also carries the meaning of confused or mixed. Zuo Tradition (Zuozhuan), Second Year of Duke Min: Confused and strange, without standard rules. It also refers to wearing variegated clothing in order to distance oneself. Annotation: Mang refers to variegated colors. Additionally, a son of the Gaoyang clan was named Mang Jiang; he was one of the eight talented men. Pronounced meng. Zuo Tradition (Zuozhuan), Fifth Year of Duke Xi: A fox-fur robe that is disheveled and matted. Annotation: Mangrong, the appearance of being disheveled or disordered. It is interchangeable with the character meaning thick or massive. It is cited in the Book of Documents (Shangshu) that if government affairs are not harmonious, they will become chaotic. Explaining Characters and Writing (Shuowen Jiezi): The character Mang is in the Dog radical, composed of dog and three-stroke fur decoration. Master Mao says: Mang is simply a dog. It is incorrect to add the dog radical to the side to write it as a variant character. Textual Research: Zuo Tradition (Zuozhuan), Fourth Year of Duke Xi: Fox-fur robe mangrong. Carefully amended to Fifth Year according to the original text.