Chou Collection, Upper Volume Radical: Mouth (kǒu) Character: piao Kangxi stroke count: 14 Page 205, Entry 13 Pronounced piao. Book of Odes (Shijing), Odes of Kuai: Not the carriage, it is piao. Commentary: Piao piao means without proper moderation or restraint. Explication of Texts (Shiwen): Piao is also written as piao. Also, appearance of a rapid blowing wind. Also, pronounced biao. It means rapid, or the sound of something moving quickly. Also, pronounced piao. It refers to a carriage moving rapidly without moderation. Also, in Corrected Characters (Zhengzitong): The Broad Rhymes (Guangyun) reads it like piao. Cheng Dachang in Expanded General Record (Yanfanlu) says: Contemporary songs are all derived from the unrestrained music of Zheng and Wei of antiquity, known as piao-singing. Piao is pronounced piao. Note: The Broad Rhymes lacks the piao pronunciation, so Corrected Characters is mistaken. Shuowen (Explaining Graphs and Analyzing Characters): Originally written as the character composed of the radical for mouth and the character for drifting.