Shen Collection, Middle Volume Radical: Insect (chóng) Wō (Snail) Kangxi strokes: 15 Page 1091, Entry 29 Tang Rhyme (Tangyun), Rhyme Collection (Yunhui), Correct Rhymes (Zhengyun): Pronounced gua. Shuowen (Shuowen Jiezi): A snail. Erya (Erya), Explanation of Fish: The fula (snail) is the yiyu (slug). Commentary: This refers to the snail. Sub-commentary: According to the Materia Medica (Bencao), Tao's commentary states: It lives in mountains and human dwellings. Its head shape resembles a slug, but it carries a shell on its back. Ancient and Modern Commentary (Gujin Zhu): The snail is known as a lingluo (hill snail). Its shell resembles a small spiral shell; when it is hot, it hangs itself from a leaf. Country folk build round huts that look like a snail shell, hence they are called snail huts; the snail shell is spiral and patterned. Zhuangzi (Zhuangzi), Zeyang Chapter: There was a state on the left horn of a snail called the Chu clan, and a state on the right horn of a snail called the Man clan. Guo Pu, River Rhapsody (Jiangfu): The parrot snail and the snail. Also, Rhyme Collection (Yunhui): Pronounced gua. Interchangeable with wa. Book of Rites (Liji), Bright Hall Positions (Mingtang Wei): The sheng reed pipes of Nüwa. Also pronounced ge. Guo Xiang's commentary on the Zhuangzi reads it as ge. Textual Research: Erya (Erya), Explanation of Insects: The fula (snail) is the yiyu (slug). Correction: Following the original text of the Explanation of Insects, the reference to Explanation of Fish has been corrected.