Yin Collection, Lower Volume Radical: Step (chì) Kangxi strokes: 13 Page 370, Entry 10 Jade Chapters (Yupian) Pronounced yao. Means corvee labor. Book of Rites (Zhouli), Office of Heaven, Grand Minister: With a hundred and twenty followers. Annotation: These are commoners providing corvee labor. Book of the Later Han (Hou Hanshu), Biography of Diwu Lun: When Lun was a village magistrate, he equalized corvee taxes. Also, Rhyme Collection (Yunhui): Commonly written as yao. Book of the Former Han (Qian Hanshu), Annals of Emperor Jing: Reduced corvee taxes. Also, Rhyme Collection (Yunhui): Also written as yao. Book of the Former Han (Qian Hanshu), Annals of Emperor Xuan: Arbitrarily initiated labor. Broad Rhymes (Guangyun), Collected Rhymes (Jiyun), and Categorized Chapters (Leipian) write it as yao.