Wei Collection, Lower Volume Radical: Silk (mì) Kangxi Strokes: 17 Page 936, Entry 03 Pronounced lu (rising tone). Shuowen Jiezi (Shuowen): Threads. Guangyun (Guangyun): Silk threads. Rites of Zhou (Zhouli), Office of Heaven: The Officer of Hemp controls the distribution of fine hemp, threads, and ramie items. Mencius (Mengzi): There are taxes on cloth and thread. Songs of Chu (Chuci), Summons of the Soul: Qin baskets and Qi threads. Also, lulu: detailed and exhaustive. Letter to Xu Mengrong by Liu Zongyuan: Although I wish to take up the brush to explain in detail. Also, jielu: name of a grass. Erya (Erya), Explanations of Grasses: Fu (a type of plant) is called hengmu. Commentary: Another name for this is jielu, commonly referred to as drum-zither grass. Pronounced lou. Common variant form of lü (ragged). Yupian (Yupian): Poor and lacking clothing, ugly and worn. Xiao Erya (Xiao Erya): Coarse cloth garments that are patched are called lanlü. Zuo Tradition (Zuozhuan), Twelfth Year of Duke Xuan: With bramble carts and ragged clothing, to open up the mountain forests. Commentary: Lanlü means tattered clothing. Leipian (Leipian): A variant form of lü (ragged).