Wei Collection, Middle Volume Radical: Silk (mì) Character: Hu Kangxi Stroke Count: 16 Page 934, Entry 19 Broad Rhymes (Guangyun), Collected Rhymes (Jiyun), Rhyme Compendium (Yunhui), Correct Rhymes (Zhengyun): Pronounced hu (rising tone). Explaining Graphs (Shuowen): Fine silk fabric. Jade Chapters (Yupian): Gauze silk. Broad Rhymes (Guangyun): Gauze silk. Augmented Rhymes (Zengyun): Crinkled gauze is called hu, woven from spun silk. Explanation of Names (Shiming): Hu, like grain (su); its pattern is puckered and gathered, appearing like grains when observed. Strategies of the Warring States (Zhanguoce): Not as much as the King loves a foot of gauze silk. Note: Hu is fine silk. Records of the Grand Historian (Shiji), Biography of Sima Xiangru: Hanging mist-like gauze. Note: Meaning it is as fine as mist. History of the Later Han (Hou Hanshu), Annals of Emperor Zhang: Imperial edict to reduce the use of ice-white silk and patterned airy gauze. Note: Hu is gauze. Song Yu, Rhapsody on the Goddess (Shennü Fu): Moving through mist-like gauze with a slow gait. Note: Hu is what is now known as light gauze. Textual Research: Explaining Graphs (Shuowen) states fine binding. According to the original text, binding has been corrected to fine silk fabric.