Hai Collection, Middle Volume Radical: Fish (yú) Character: Tiao Kangxi strokes: 18 Page 1471, Entry 14 Pronounced you. Shuowen Jiezi (Explaining Graphs and Analyzing Characters): Name of a fish. Jiyun (Collection of Rhymes): The same as you. Zhuangzi (Master Zhuang), Autumn Floods: The tiao fish swim out. Commentary and Meaning: This refers to the white tiao fish. Huainanzi (The Masters of Huainan), Surveying the Obscure: Those who do not obtain the Way are like observing tiao fish. Annotation: Tiao fish are small fish. Zhengzitong (Correction of Character Meaning): Commonly called can tiao fish; they are long and small, often floating on the water surface, and by nature love to swim, hence the name. Also in Classic of Mountains and Seas (Shanhaijing): Daishan; Peng water flows west to Pihu Lake, where there are many tiao fish. Their form is like a chicken with a red tail, three tails, six feet, and four eyes, and their sound is like a magpie. Note: This is a different type from those mentioned in the Zhuangzi and Huainanzi. Also a place name. Zuo Zhuan (Commentary of Zuo), 17th Year of Duke Wen: Will exhaust all exhausted resources to wait at Tiao. Annotation: Tiao is on the border of Jin and Zheng. Also a name of a person. Zuo Zhuan (Commentary of Zuo): Duke Bo Tiao of the Jin state, and Liu Tiao of the Later Han dynasty. Also pronounced chou. The meaning is the same. Also pronounced tiao. Originally written as tiao. See the note for the character tiao.