Chen Collection, Middle Volume Radical: Tree (mù) Kangxi Strokes: 8 Page 516, Entry 08 Pronounced mei. Shuowen Jiezi (Explanation of Writing and Analysis of Characters): Tree trunk, can be used as a walking stick. The character shape is composed of Tree and Strike. Book of Odes (Shijing), Great Odes: Extending along the branches and the trunk. Xu says: Growing out from the branches; the branching parts are called tiao, while the main trunk is called mei. Also refers to a unit of measure (an individual). Book of Documents (Shangshu), Counsels of the Great Yu: Divining the meritorious officials one by one. Note: Divining them individually. Book of Han (Hanshu), Treatise on Food and Money: Two items make one peng. Treatise on the Five Elements: Uprooting the trees within the palace, there were sixteen that were seven arm-spans or more in circumference. Also, mei shi refers to a vague method of divination without specifying a particular matter. Zuo Tradition (Zuo Zhuan), Year 12 of Duke Zhao: Nan Kuai used the method of mei shi to divine. Also, a horse whip is called a mei. Zuo Tradition (Zuo Zhuan), Year 18 of Duke Zhao: Using a horse whip to count the door leaves. Also, xian mei, where the mei is shaped like a chopstick, held horizontally in the mouth and tied around the neck with a rope. Rites of Zhou (Zhouli), Autumn Official: The Officer of Xian Mei is in charge of prohibiting noise. Also refers to the bell knobs (protrusions on the surface of a bell). Rites of Zhou (Zhouli), Winter Official, Artificers' Record: The bands on a bell are called zhuan, and the parts between the zhuan are called mei. Also mei mei, describing something detailed and compact. Book of Odes (Shijing), Praise Songs of Lu: The ancestral temples and palaces are very quiet; the architecture is solid and tightly constructed. Also, double eaves on a building are called shuang mei. He Yan, Rhapsody on the Jingfu Palace: The double eaves have been completed. Also a surname. Comprehensive Genealogy (Tongpu): There was Mei Bei in the Zhou dynasty and Mei Cheng in the Han dynasty. Critical Examination: In Zuo Tradition, Year 11 of Duke Zhao, according to the original text, eleven has been corrected to eighteen.