Mao Collection, Upper Volume Radical: Heart (xīn) Total strokes in Kangxi: 16 Page 402, Entry 19 Pronounced qiao In Broad Rhymes (Guangyun), Book of Rhymes (Jiyun), and Collection of Rhymes (Yunhui) and Correct Rhymes (Zhengyun), the pronunciation is qiao. In Broad Rhymes (Guangyun), it means withered and emaciated, or weak. In Discourses of the States (Guoyu), it is written that the common people were scattered and displaced, and day by day they became more emaciated. This character is interchangeable with the variant form (qiao).