Wu Collection, Upper Volume
Radical: Jade (yù)
Di
Kangxi strokes: 8
Page 727, Entry 16
Pronounced di
Pronounced di
Shuowen Jiezi (Shuowen): Dili, referring to the luster of a bright pearl.
Records of the Grand Historian (Shiji), Biography of Sima Xiangru: Dili along the riverbank.
Commentary: Ying Shao explains that this refers to a pearl as bright as the moon, whose radiance illuminates the riverbank.