Chou Collection, Lower Volume Radical: Big (dà) Kangxi Strokes: 8 Page 250, Entry 23 Pronounced pao. It refers to grain being piled up after harvest, and it also carries the meaning of large. Yang Xiong's Regional Dialects (Fangyan) states that using exaggerated speech to deceive others is called pao. It also refers to a catapult stone. Han Yu's Couplets on the Expedition to Shu (Zheng Shu Lianju) mentions throwing a pao. The commentary notes that the sound of a pao is like a stone collapsing. It is also the name of a marquisate. In the Table of Meritorious Officials of the Former Han Dynasty (Qian Han Wugong Chenbiao), Gongsun He was ennobled as the Marquis of Nanpao for his role as a general in capturing an enemy king while beyond the frontier. The Records of the Grand Historian (Shiji), Biography of Wei Qing, writes this as jiao.