Mao Collection, Middle Volume Radical: Hand (shou) Kangxi stroke count: 9 Page 425, Entry 01 Pronounced pao Shuowen Jiezi (Explanation of Simple and Compound Characters): To abandon. Guangyun (Broad Rhymes): To throw. Also pronounced pao (falling tone). The meaning is the same. Also, in military contexts, a machine used to launch stones is called a throwing cart. Book of the Later Han (Hou Hanshu), Biography of Yuan Shao: Cao Cao used stone-launching carts to strike Yuan Shao's forces, which were called thunderbolt carts. Commentary: This refers to what is now called a throwing cart. Book of Tang (Tangshu), Biography of Goguryeo: Li Ji lined up throwing carts to launch large stones, and whatever they struck would immediately collapse. Jiyun (Collection of Rhymes): Also written in a variant form. Also, according to the Shuowen Jiezi, sometimes written with the hand radical and the element piao acting as a phonetic indicator. Generally used interchangeably with the character biao. See the detailed entry for the character biao. Also, Jiyun, Yunhui, and Zhengyun (Correct Rhymes): Sometimes written as the character bao. See the detailed entry for the character bao.