Hai Collection, Middle Volume Radical: Fish (yú) Character: Bie Kangxi strokes: 23 Page 1477, Entry 01 According to the Extensive Rhymes (Guangyun) and the Collected Rhymes (Jiyun), it is pronounced bie. It is the same as the character biex. In the Book of Evaluation of Standard Characters (Ganlu Zishu), the character bie is commonly used as a variant for biex. In the Book of Changes (Yijing), section on the Discussion of Trigrams (Shuogua), it states that the Li trigram represents the bie. In the Explanations of Texts (Shiwen), it notes that the character bie also has a version written as biex. In the Zhuangzi, chapter on Autumn Floods (Qiushui), it mentions the bie of the East Sea. According to the Sound and Meaning (Yinyi), the character bie can also be written as biex.