Shen Collection, Upper Volume Radical: Grass (cǎo) Jue Kangxi stroke count: 18 Page 1058, Entry 14 Pronounced cuo (entering tone). Discourses of the States (Jin Yu): Chu, as a southern barbarian state, set up thatched markers. Commentary: The term refers to tying bundles of thatch and standing them upright to use as a wine filter. Also used interchangeably with the character zui. History of the Former Han (Qian Han Shu), Biography of Shusun Tong: He and more than one hundred of his disciples practiced the ceremonial arrangement with thatched markers. Commentary by Yan Shigu: Zui is the same as jue. Also, according to the Compilation of Texts (Zuan Wen), jue is the current character zuan. Pronounced qiao (rising tone). Records of the Grand Historian (Shiji), Annals of Xia: Traveling through mud while riding a sledge. Commentary: Xu Guang says that other texts sometimes write this as jue. The Explanatory Commentary (Suoyin) states that jue is pronounced rui (rising tone). According to the Six Categories of Writing Corrected (Liushu Zheng’e), it means small.