For example, the first entry in the "Qieyun", shown at right, describes the character 東 "dōng" "east". The three characters on the right are a "fanqie" pronunciation key, marked by the character 反 "fǎn" "turn back". This indicates that the word is pronounced with the initial of 德 and the final of 紅 [ɣuŋ, i.e. . The word is glossed as 木方 "mù fāng", i.e. the direction of wood (one of the Five Elements), while the numeral 二 "two" indicates that this is the first of two entries in a homophone group.