Hai Collection, Lower Volume Radical: Frog (mǐn) Kangxi strokes: 23 Page 1524, Entry 24 Pronounced ao. According to the Analytical Dictionary of Characters (Shuowen Jiezi), it is a large turtle found in the sea. The Jade Chapters (Yupian) records: Legends say there is a divine spiritual turtle that carries Mount Penglai on its back in the middle of the sea. In the Records of the Grand Historian (Shiji), specifically the Annals of the Three Sovereigns, it is written that the goddess Nuwa severed the feet of the turtle to prop up the four corners of the world. It is commonly written in the variant form ao, which is incorrect.