Mao Collection, Upper Volume Radical: Heart (xīn) Character: Nuo Kangxi stroke count: 13 Page 395, Entry 20 Guangyun (Dictionary of Sounds and Meanings of the Broad Rhymes): Pronounced ruan (rising tone). Jiyun (Collection of Rhymes): Pronounced ruan (rising tone). Meaning: Weak. Sometimes written in the variant form nuo (cowardly). Also, Jiyun: Pronounced ruan (rising tone). Also, Yupian (Jade Compendium), Guangyun, Jiyun: Pronounced ruo (falling tone). Meaning the same. Also, Jiyun: Pronounced nuo (falling tone). Meaning: Timid. Book of Han (Hanshu), Annals of Emperor Wu: In the second year of Tianhan, the governor was executed in the marketplace for being cowardly and timid.