Wei Collection, Lower Volume Radical: Meat (ròu) Brain Kangxi strokes: 15 Page 988, Entry 20 According to Expanded Rhymes (Guangyun), pronounced nao (falling-rising tone). According to Collected Rhymes (Jiyun), Rhyme Meetings (Yunhui), and Orthodox Rhymes (Zhengyun), pronounced nao (falling-rising tone), sounds like nao. According to Explaining Graphs and Analyzing Characters (Shuowen), it was originally written as a variant form (nao). It means the marrow of the head. Also according to Expanded Rhymes (Guangyun), pronounced nao (falling tone). According to Collected Rhymes (Jiyun), pronounced nao (falling tone), sounds like nao. According to Expanded Rhymes (Guangyun), it refers to an abundance of skin. According to Collected Rhymes (Jiyun), it refers to being moist and glossy. Also, according to Rhyme Meetings (Yunhui), it is sometimes written as a variant form (nao). In the Rites of Zhou (Zhouli), Winter Official, Artificers Record (Kaogongji), Bow Maker (Gongren), it refers to the base of the horn being pressed upon. According to Expanded Rhymes (Guangyun), it is the same as nao (a mound). Sometimes written as a variant form using the earth radical. According to Collected Rhymes (Jiyun), it is sometimes written as a variant form (nao).