Shen Collection, Upper Volume Radical: Grass (cǎo) 芥 Kangxi strokes: 10 Page 1019, Entry 31 Pronounced jie (falling tone). Shuowen Jiezi (Shuowen): A type of vegetable. Record of Rites (Liji), Inner Chapters: In autumn, one uses mustard greens. Book of Etiquette and Ceremonial (Yili), Ritual of Public Eating for Grand Officers: Roasted meat is to the south, meat sauce is to the west, accompanied by pork chunks, mustard sauce, and minced fish. Commentary: Mustard sauce is sauce made from mustard seeds. Yangzi: Dialect (Fangyan): Fengrao is called large mustard in the Zhao and Wei regions; small varieties are called pungent mustard, or sometimes hidden mustard. Wings of the Erya (Erya Yi): Mustard greens resemble Chinese cabbage but are covered in fine hairs, and their taste is extremely pungent. Continuation of Records of Broad Knowledge (Xu Bowuzhi): Eating mustard greens causes one to shed tears. Also refers to grass or fodder. Yangzi: Dialect (Fangyan): From the west of the Huai River, some places call it grass, others call it mustard. Also refers to xianjie (minute), describing something very small and delicate. Luxuriant Dew of the Spring and Autumn Annals (Fanlu), Chapter on the Kingly Way: The Spring and Autumn Annals records even the most minute faults. Also refers to dijie, see the annotation under the character di. Pronounced ga (entering tone). Small grass. Also pronounced ji (falling tone). Wang Can, Rhapsody on Floating Down the Huai (Fu Huai Fu): Warships link together for a thousand miles, and soldiers are numbered in the hundreds of millions. Relying on such might to display fury, sweeping across the corners of the seas as if clearing away grass and mustard. Straight Pronunciation: Written as jie. The character jie belongs to the Grass (cǎo) radical. Textual verification: Yangzi: Dialect (Fangyan) mentions hidden mustard. Corrected to hidden mustard according to the original text.