Chen Collection, Middle Volume Radical: Tree (mù) Character: 橈 Kangxi Stroke Count: 16 Page 552, Entry 25 Guangyun, Jiyun, Yunhui, Zhengyun: Pronounced nao (falling tone). Shuowen: Bent wood. Book of Rites (Zhouli), Winter Officers (Dongguan), Records of Artificers (Kaogongji): The shaft-maker makes the shafts, straight and without bending. Also, to pervert. Book of Rites (Liji), Monthly Ordinances (Yueling): Order the officials to strictly warn the various departments, that none may pervert or bend the law. Also, to be weak. Book of Changes (Yijing), The Great Excess (Daguo): The ridgepole bends; this is ominous. History of the Former Han (Qianhanji), Annals of Emperor Gao: He plotted with Li Yiji to weaken the power of Chu. Also, to disperse. Book of Changes (Yijing), Treatise on the Hexagrams (Shuoguazhuan): Nothing is swifter in dispersing all things than wind. Also, to break or be defeated. Zuo Tradition (Zuozhuan), Year 2 of Duke Cheng: Fearing the tremors of the lord, the troops were broken and defeated. Also, cengnao, an architectural ornament. Huainanzi, Original Nature (Benjingxun): Twisting and curling, layer upon layer. Also, rounao, the softness of the body and bones. Sima Xiangru, Rhapsody on the Shanglin Park (Shanglinfu): Soft and supple, graceful and delicate. Yangzi, Regional Speech (Fangyan): From the pass to the west, all small things are called xiannao. Jiyun, Yunhui, Zhengyun: Pronounced nao (rising tone). Disorder. Jiyun: Pronounced nao (rising tone). Also, bent wood. Tangyun, Jiyun, Yunhui: Pronounced rao. An oar. Guangya: An oar is called nao. History of the Later Han (Houhanji), Biography of Cen Peng: Moving directly forward, the towering ships, with thousands of oars exposed. Commentary: Exposed oars means the oars are outside, and the people are inside the ship. Jiyun: Pronounced nao. To bend. Textual Correction: Book of Rites (Zhouli), Winter Officers (Dongguan), Records of Artificers (Kaogongji): The text originally cited does not match the original work. It has been corrected to: The shaft-maker makes the shafts, straight and without bending.