Wei Collection, Middle Volume Radical: Silk (mì) Cable Kangxi strokes: 27 Page 944, Entry 25 Broad Rhymes (Guangyun), Collected Rhymes (Jiyun), Dictionary of Rhymes (Yunhui), and Correct Rhymes (Zhengyun): Pronounced lan (falling tone). In the Jade Manual (Yupian): A rope for mooring boats. Du Fu, Poem on Boating on the West Slope: The slow sun looks leisurely at the silk cable pulling. Correct Rhymes (Zhengyun): Commonly written in a variant form.