Chou Collection, Lower Volume Radical: Slow (suī) Kangxi stroke count: 19 Page 245, Entry 28 Broad Rhymes (Guangyun) and Collected Rhymes (Jiyun) state this is the original form of the character nao. Explanations of Simple and Compound Characters (Shuowen Jiezi) interprets this as a type of greedy wild beast. Another source states it refers to a female monkey that resembles a human. The character structure includes the element for head, while the elements for snake and stop symbolize hands, and the radical for slow symbolizes feet; it was later simplified to the character for nao.