Zi Collection, Middle Volume Radical: Person (rén) 傚 Kangxi stroke count: 12 Page 113, Entry 24 Pronounced xiào. Meaning: law, regulation, to imitate. Often written in the variant form xiào. Also, according to the Rhyme Supplement (Yunbu), it rhymes with the sound háo. Book of Odes (Shijing), Lesser Odes (Xiao Ya): The noble man takes this as a model and imitates it. Rhymes with the preceding word zhāo and the following word áo. Textual research: In the Book of Odes (Shijing), Lesser Odes (Xiao Ya), the line reads: The noble man takes this as a model and imitates it. It rhymes with the preceding zhāo and the following jiào. As per the original text, jiào has been corrected to áo.