Chou Collection, Lower Volume Radical: Woman (nǚ) Yang Kangxi stroke count: 8 Page 258, Entry 25 Broad Rhymes (Guangyun) and Collected Rhymes (Jiyun): Pronounced yang. Explanation of Simple and Compound Characters (Shuowen): Refers to how a woman refers to herself. Also, Collected Rhymes (Jiyun): Pronounced yang. Also: Pronounced ang. The meaning is the same. Also: The character yang shifts to ang. Book of the Later Han: Southern Barbarian Biographies (Houhan Shu, Nanman Zhuan): The title for a leader is jingfu, and they address one another as yangtu. Yang and ang differ in character form, but the pronunciations are interchangeable.