Wu Collection, Lower Volume Radical: Spirit (shì) 11 Kangxi strokes Page 843, Entry 04 Pronounced gui (falling rising tone) Erya (Erya): Explaining Glosses (Shigu) states: Gui means ancestor. Commentary: The spirit tablet of a destroyed ancestral temple is called gui. Also, according to the Collected Rhymes (Jiyun), pronounced hui (rising tone). Commonly written as a variant form (hui). Also, pronounced gui (falling tone). The meaning is the same.