Mao Collection, Lower Volume Radical: Tapping (pū) Yang Kangxi stroke count: 13 Page 474, Entry 02 According to the Collection of Rhymes (Jiyun), the character for yang was historically written as yang. In the Ancient Text Commentary on the Book of Documents (Shujing), it is written as clearly raise the lowly. Note that in the Canon of Yao chapter of the Book of Documents (Shujing), it is now written as yang. Also, the Biography of Imperial Favorites in the Book of Song (Songshu) discusses clearly raising those in obscurity and low positions. For further details, see the entry under Radical: Hand (shǒu), nine strokes.