Mao Collection, Upper Volume Radical: Heart (xīn) Character: Xion Kangxi Dictionary stroke count: 10 Page 384, Entry 30 Broad Rhymes (Guangyun) and Collected Rhymes (Jiyun): Pronounced xiong. Meaning: fear. Also in Five Sounds Collected Rhymes (Wuyin Jiyun): Pronounced xiong. From Han Yu, Joint Verses on Meeting: Ghost caves shed dark spirits, heavenly dwellings reveal pure supports. Capital wanderings start to stir, exiled dreams still hold fear. Sometimes also written in a variant form (xiong).