Wei Collection, Middle Volume Radical: Silk (mì) 絝 Kangxi strokes: 12 Page 922, Entry 20 Guangyun (Guangyun), Jiyun (Jiyun), Zheng Yun (Zhengyun): Pronounced ku. Shuowen (Shuowen): Leg coverings. Records of the Grand Historian (Shiji): The lady placed the child inside the leg coverings. Also in the Biography of Sima Xiangru (Sima Xiangru Zhuan): To wear the white tiger leg coverings. Commentary: The character used here is an archaic form of the character for trousers. Book of Han (Hanshu): Short clothes, large leg coverings, long swords. Book of the Later Han (Houhanshu): In one's lifetime without a jacket, now five leg coverings. Huainanzi (Huainanzi): Short bindings, no leg coverings. Jiyun (Jiyun): Sometimes written in a variant form (ku). Also, in the Yupian (Yupian): It is the archaic form of the character for a knotted cord (tao).