Chou Collection, Upper Volume Radical: Mouth (kǒu) Character: bi Kangxi strokes: 8 Page 184, Entry 12 Broadly Collected Rhymes (Guangyun) and Collected Rhymes (Jiyun) record the pronunciation as bie. Broadly Collected Rhymes (Guangyun) defines this as: fragrance in the mouth. Jade Chapters (Yupian) defines this as: fragrant. Also, Broadly Collected Rhymes (Guangyun) defines this as: speech. Also, Broadly Collected Rhymes (Guangyun) records the pronunciation as bi; Collected Rhymes (Jiyun) records the pronunciation as bi. This also means fragrant. Sima Xiangru, Rhapsody on the Shanglin Park (Shanglin Fu) contains the phrase: an ai bi fu. Note: Shigu states: all of these describe the meaning of fragrance. Explanation: bi, pronounced bi. Also, it is interchangeable with the character bi. Records of the Grand Historian (Shiji), Biography of Sima Xiangru writes it as an ai bi bo. Compendium of Characters (Zihui) records: bi is the same as bi. Also, Broadly Collected Rhymes (Guangyun) defines this as: speech that is not clear. Collected Rhymes (Jiyun) defines this as: speech that is not explicit. Also, Broadly Collected Rhymes (Guangyun) is the same as the character pi, describing the sound of chirping as bi bi. Also, Broadly Collected Rhymes (Guangyun) records the pronunciation as bi; Collected Rhymes (Jiyun) records the pronunciation as bi. Broadly Collected Rhymes (Guangyun) defines this as: bi, referring to talkative. Also, Collected Rhymes (Jiyun) records the pronunciation as bi. bi jie, describes the manner in which sound is emitted. Or written as bi. Also, Collected Rhymes (Jiyun) records the pronunciation as bi. bi bi, describes the sound of mournful crying. Note: The character ai was originally written with the sun radical and the component ai.