Yin Collection, Lower Volume Radical: Wide (guǎng) Kangxi strokes: 8 Page 344, Entry 10 Pronounced pao Shuowen Jiezi (Explanation of Simple and Compound Characters): A kitchen. Book of Odes (Shijing): The great kitchen is not full. Rites of Zhou (Zhouli): The kitchen official. Commentary: The word for kitchen implies wrapping. To wrap meat is called baoju (a bundle of meat). Sub-commentary: The term bao implies what we now call a kitchen. The reason it is written as bao is to signify that the kitchen official manages the six types of livestock and six types of game, carrying the meaning of wrapping meat. Records of the Grand Historian (Shiji): Fuxi, the great sovereign, raised sacrificial animals for the kitchen, and was therefore called Paoxi. Also, in Jiyun (Compilation of Rhymes): Used interchangeably with bao. Book of Changes (I Ching): Nine in the second place, wrapping the fish, no blame. Explanation of Texts: Bao is also written as pao.