Si Collection, Middle Volume Radical: Split Wood (pán) Qiang Kangxi Dictionary Stroke Count: 14 Page 692, Entry 18 Tang Rhyme (Tangyun): Pronounced qiang. Collected Rhymes (Jiyun), Rhyme Meetings (Yunhui), and Orthodox Rhymes (Zhengyun): Pronounced qiang. Explaining Graphs and Analyzing Characters (Shuowen): The sound of birds and beasts coming to eat. Derived from the radical for granary (cāng), with the sound of the radical for split wood (pán). Documents of Yu (Yushu) states: The birds and beasts are qiang qiang. Note: In the modern Book of Documents (Shujing), specifically the Yi and Ji chapter, it is written as qiang. Also, in the Gongyang Commentary on the Spring and Autumn Annals (Gongyang Zhuan), 14th Year of Duke Ding: Chu destroyed Dun, and the son of the ruler of Dun, Qiang, returned. The Zuo Commentary (Zuo Zhuan) writes this as zang; see the note under the character zang for details. Collected Rhymes (Jiyun): Sometimes also written in a variant form.