Yin Collection, Middle Volume. Radical: Cloth (jīn). Kangxi stroke count: 11. Page 332, Entry 23. Pronounced she. Tang Rhymes (Tangyun) and Collected Rhymes (Jiyun) state the pronunciation is the same as she. Explication of Written Characters (Shuowen Jiezi) defines this as a skirt. One source states it refers to a woman's close-fitting undergarment. Also, in Broad Rhymes (Guangyun), Collected Rhymes (Jiyun), and Categorized Compilation (Leipian), it is pronounced can. Also, in Collected Rhymes (Jiyun), it is pronounced xian. The above pronunciations have the same meaning. Also, in Broad Rhymes (Guangyun) and Collected Rhymes (Jiyun), it is pronounced jian. Broad Rhymes (Guangyun) defines this as a baby's diapering cloth. Also, in Broad Rhymes (Guangyun), Collected Rhymes (Jiyun), Rhyme Meetings (Yunhui), and Correct Rhymes (Zhengyun), it is pronounced jian. Categorized Compilation (Leipian) defines this as a baby's swaddling cloth. Also, in Broad Rhymes (Guangyun), it means narrow. Rites of Zhou (Zhouli), Winter Officials, Artificers' Record (Dongguan Kaogongji): If the material itself is stretched too tightly and tears first, that is taking the wide and treating it as narrow. Commentary: Zheng Sinong says: Pronounce it as jian, meaning to treat the wide as narrow. Sub-commentary: Treating it as jian also carries the meaning of narrow or small. Also, in Collected Rhymes (Jiyun), it is pronounced jian. The meaning is the same as above. Also, in Broad Rhymes (Guangyun) and Collected Rhymes (Jiyun), it is pronounced san. Expanded Gazetteer (Guangya) defines this as a diaper. Two widths of silk are referred to as this. Also, in Five Sounds Collected Rhymes (Wuyin Jiyun), it is pronounced. It refers to a quilt. Also, in Categorized Compilation (Leipian), it is pronounced xian (falling tone). It refers to the breadth of a skirt. Also, it is interchangeable with jian (a saddle pad). Book of Jin (Jinshu), Biography of Zhang Fang: Soldiers scrambled to cut off tassels and military curtains to make saddle pads.