Wei Collection, Upper Volume Radical: Bamboo (zhú) Bi Kangxi strokes: 17 Page 895, Entry 01 Pronounced bi. According to the Explaining Graphs and Analyzing Characters (Shuowen Jiezi), it refers to a woven fence or barrier. In the Book of Rites (Liji), specifically the section on the conduct of a Confucian scholar, it mentions a gate made of woven bamboo and a small, wedge-shaped opening. The commentary explains that a gate made of woven bamboo is a gate made of interlaced brambles and bamboo. It also refers to a cart made of brushwood. In the Zuo Tradition (Zuo Zhuan), under the twelfth year of the Duke of Xuan, it is written: pulling a brushwood cart and wearing tattered clothes to open up the mountains and forests. The commentary states that a brushwood cart is a cart made of firewood. Also, pronounced bi. The meaning is the same. It is commonly written in the variant form (bi).