Si Collection, Upper Volume Radical: Water (shuǐ) 澡 Kangxi strokes: 17 Page 652, Entry 40 Pronounced zǎo (rising tone). Same as zǎo. Shuowen Jiezi (Explaining Single-component Characters and Analyzing Compound Characters): Jade ornaments resembling the patterns of water algae. Sometimes written with the water radical as zǎo. Also, zǎo means to wash. Dongguan Hanji (Records of the Eastern Han): To use one's hands to scoop water to wash the face. Also used to mean moral refinement and purity. Book of Rites (Liji): The Confucian scholar washes the body with water and bathes the spirit with virtue. Also, the name of a marsh. Biography of the Son of Heaven (Tianzi Zhuan): Bo Xu offered wine to the Son of Heaven at Zao Marsh. Also, in Jiyun (Collection of Rhymes): Pronounced cāo. Zǎo describes the appearance of water about to boil. Textual research: Shuowen Jiezi states: Jade ornaments resembling the patterns of water algae. Sometimes written with the water radical as zǎo. In accordance with the original text, corrected ice algae to water algae.