Wei Collection, Lower Volume Radical: Silk (mì) Gua Kangxi Strokes: 15 Page 932, Entry 14 Expanded Dictionary of Sounds and Meanings (Guangyun): Pronounced gua. Collected Rhymes (Jiyun) and Rhymes and Annotations (Yunhui): Pronounced gua. As described in the Explaining Graphs and Analyzing Characters (Shuowen): A purple-blue color of a silk ribbon. Records of the Grand Historian (Shiji), Biography of Jesters: Wearing a blue silk ribbon. Commentary on the Treatise on Carriages and Attire in the Book of the Later Han (Houhan Shu): A purple ribbon is called gua; its color is blue-purple. Additionally, Expanded Dictionary of Sounds and Meanings (Guangyun): Pronounced gua. Collected Rhymes (Jiyun) and Rhymes and Annotations (Yunhui): Pronounced gua. Meaning same as above. Additionally, Collected Rhymes (Jiyun): Pronounced luo. Meaning same as above. Additionally, Correct Rhymes (Zhengyun): Pronounced ge. Meaning same as above.