Si Collection, Upper Volume Radical: Water (shuǐ) Entry: Bo Kangxi Stroke Count: 9 Page 615, Entry 14 Broad Rhymes (Guangyun): Pronounced bo. Collected Rhymes (Jiyun), Rhyme Meetings (Yunhui): Pronounced bo. Meaning: To anchor or moor. When a boat docks at the shore, it is called bo. Citation: In the drifting boat among a thousand mountains, at sunset, I moor at Wangzhu. — Du Fu Poetry (Du Fu Shi) Meaning: Also refers to the appearance of water. Citation: As vast as the pools of the four seas. — History of the Former Han Dynasty (Qian Hanshu), Odes on Suburban Sacrifices (Jiaosi Ge) Meaning: Also, danbo, referring to a state of being calm, tranquil, and without ambitious pursuits. Citation: Tranquil before any omen has appeared. — Laozi, Classic of the Way and Virtue (Daodejing) Meaning: Also, fenbo, referring to the appearance of a great multitude of birds and beasts. Citation: Swelling and fluctuating in great numbers. — Zhang Heng, Western Capital Rhapsody (Xijing Fu) Meaning: Also, piaobo, referring to living as a wanderer in a foreign land. Citation: Drifting at the lower pavilion, lodging as a traveler at the high bridge. — Yu Xin, Lament for the South (Ai Jiangnan Fu) Meaning: Also the same as the word for thin or slight (bo). Citation: Energy has thickness and thinness, therefore human nature has good and evil. — Wang Chong, Balanced Discourses (Lunheng), Chapter on Following Nature (Shuai Xing Pian) Also, Collected Rhymes (Jiyun): Pronounced pai. Meaning: Po, referring to the dense appearance of bamboo. Sometimes written as mo-bo. Citation: Dense and flourishing as they extend. — Wang Bao, Rhapsody on the Bamboo Flute (Dongxiao Fu) Meaning: Also refers to small waves. Citation: Rippling and swaying in a continuous stretch. — Mu Hua, Rhapsody on the Sea (Hai Fu) Note: Bo is pronounced pai. Textual Research: In Zhang Heng's Western Capital Rhapsody, the character ze has been corrected to yi in accordance with the original text.