Wu Collection, Upper Volume Radical: Jade (yù) Ao Kangxi stroke count: 16 Page 741, Entry 06 According to the Collected Rhymes (Jiyun) and the Rhyme Gathering (Yunhui), the pronunciation is ao. A type of musical instrument. In the Biography of Emperor Wu (Hanwudi Neizhuan), it is written: The Queen Mother ordered her attendants to play the ao of eight jades and perform the song of Yunhe. In the poetry of Wu Jun, it is written: The phoenix dances and the dragon ao plays.