Wei Collection, Lower Volume
Radical: Silk (mì)
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Kangxi strokes: 16
Page 933, Entry 37
Guangyun (Broad Rhymes), Jiyun (Collected Rhymes), Yunhui (Collection of Rhymes), Zhengyun (Correct Rhymes): Pronounced cui.
Shuowen (Explaining Graphs and Analyzing Characters): A mourning garment, six inches long and four inches wide, hanging straight down the chest.
Yupian (Jade Chapters): A mourning garment.
Zuo Tradition (Zuo Zhuan): Yan Ying wore a coarse mourning garment with hemmed edges.
Note: The garment is worn on the chest.
Explication: The character was originally also written as a variant form (shuai).
Jiyun (Collected Rhymes): Pronounced cui. Refers to the feathers on the head of an egret.
Jiyun (Collected Rhymes): Pronounced sui. Refers to a garment woven from egret feathers.
Jiyun (Collected Rhymes): Pronounced suo. The meaning is the same.