Wei Collection, Middle Volume Radical: Silk (mì) Character: Kun Kangxi strokes: 14 Page 929, Entry 02 Broad Rhymes (Guangyun), Collected Rhymes (Jiyun), Rhyme Meetings (Yunhui), and Correct Rhymes (Zhengyun): Pronounced gun. Explanation of Words (Shuowen): An embroidered belt. Book of Odes (Shijing), Qin Wind: Bamboo binding and silk cord bindings. Commentary: Kun means a cord or rope. History of the Later Han (Hou Hanshu), Biography of the Southern Xiongnu: Children wore knives and silk cord belts, one of each. Annotation: Kun is a woven belt. Collected Rhymes (Jiyun): Pronounced hun. To sew. Collected Rhymes (Jiyun): Pronounced hun. The Hunyi (a nomadic tribe) is sometimes written as Kun. Records of the Grand Historian (Shiji), Biography of the Xiongnu: From Long westward there were the Mianzhu and the Kun Rong (tribes). Annotation: The character should be hun. Collected Rhymes (Jiyun): Pronounced kun. The meaning is the same.