Shen Collection, Middle Volume Radical: Tiger (hǔ) Character: Xiao Kangxi stroke count: 10 Page 1073, Entry 16 Tang Rhymes (Tangyun): Pronounced xiao. Collected Rhymes (Jiyun), Rhyme Meetings (Yunhui), Correct Rhymes (Zhengyun): Pronounced xiao. According to Explanation of Simple and Compound Characters (Shuowen): The roar of a tiger. Book of Odes (Shijing), Greater Odes: Advance those tiger-like subjects, roaring like a tiger. Commentary: The sound of a tiger angered. Book of Jin (Jinshu), Biography of Wang Rong: When Rong was six or seven years old, he watched a performance at the Xuanwu training grounds where a fierce beast was in a large enclosure, roaring and shaking the ground. Also according to Classified Chapters (Leipian): One source says it is a lion. Also in Rhyme Meetings (Yunhui): It is also written as hu. Han Yu, Joint Couplet on the Conquest of Shu: The imperial decree issued to suppress the fierce roar. Sometimes also written in a variant form (xiao).