Chou Collection, Lower Volume Radical: Woman (nǚ) Mei Kangxi stroke count: 12 Page 266, Entry 17 Guangyun (Broad Rhymes): Pronounced mei (rising tone) Jiyun (Collected Rhymes): Pronounced mei (rising tone) Shuowen (Explaining Graphs and Analyzing Characters): Good color. Liushu gu (Treatise on the Six Types of Characters): Mei is also written in the variant form mei; the pronunciation and meaning are the same.