Si Collection, Lower Volume Radical: Dog (quǎn) Kangxi Strokes: 21 Page 713, Entry 06 Pronounced mi (rising tone). In General Rhymes (Guangyun) and Collected Rhymes (Jiyun), it is defined as mi. In Jade Chapters (Yupian): The macaque. In Extensive Elegance (Boya): The ape and the monkey, both are the macaque. Additionally, in Correct Character Generalization (Zhengzitong): The Universal Refinements (Tongya) states that the wood monkey, the macaque, and the mother monkey are the same. In the History of the Former Han (Qianhan Shu), Western Regions Biography, commentary on the wood monkey: The wood monkey is the macaque. The pronunciation of mother shifted to ma, and then shifted to mi. Local dialects call a mother mu, which is proof of this. Since the female of the species is strong, the macaque is also used to refer to the larger ones, just as things of great size are often called horse, such as in the cases of the indigo horse or the thistle. In Collected Rhymes (Jiyun): Sometimes written in a variant form (mi).