Xu Collection, Lower Volume Radical: Leaf (yè) Kangxi strokes: 18 Page 1406, Entry 40 Pronounced e. According to the Explaining Graphs and Analyzing Characters (Shuowen Jiezi), it refers to the forehead. See the detailed note under the entry for forehead. Also, it rhymes with the word e (falling tone). In the Ballad of the City (Chengzhong Yao) from the History of the Later Han (Houhan Shu): In the city they like high hair buns, in the four directions they are one foot high. In the city they like wide eyebrows, in the four directions they are already half a forehead. Foot is pronounced chuo.