Xu Collection, Middle Volume Radical: Rain (yǔ) Character: Ji Kangxi Stroke Count: 22 Page 1379, Entry 22 Tang Rhymes (Tangyun), Collected Rhymes (Jiyun), Dictionary of Rhymes (Yunhui), and Correct Rhymes (Zhengyun): Pronounced ji (falling tone). The pronunciation is the same as the character meaning to squeeze. Explaining Graphs and Analyzing Characters (Shuowen): Rain has stopped. The character structure uses the radical for rain and the character for even as the phonetic component. Erya: Glossary of Heaven (Erya): To reach a state is called clearing. Commentary: Nowadays, the people of Nanyang refer to the cessation of rain as clearing. Sub-commentary: Reaching a state means to stop. Book of Documents (Shangshu): There are signs resembling rain, and there are signs resembling the clearing of rain. Commentary: The shapes of the cracks on scorched tortoise shells sometimes resemble falling rain and sometimes resemble the clearing of rain. History of the Former Han (Qianhan): Withhold and collect one's majesty. Commentary: Clearing means to stop or cease. Also, Collected Rhymes (Jiyun): Pronounced ji (falling tone). The pronunciation is the same as the character for sipping. It refers to the sky clearing. Piya: After the rain, the sky clearing is called clearing. Also, Collected Rhymes (Jiyun): Pronounced ji (falling tone). Also pronounced ji (rising tone). The meaning remains the same.