Si Collection, Upper Volume Radical: Water (shuǐ) Entry: Mǐ Kangxi stroke count: 13 Page 635, Entry 08 Broad Rhymes (Guangyun): Pronounced mǐ (rising tone). Collected Rhymes (Jiyun) and Rhyme Compendium (Yunhui): Pronounced mǐ (rising tone). Explaining Graphs and Analyzing Characters (Shuowen): Also defined as the appearance of water. It is also used to refer to the bathing of a corpse, known as mǐ. Rites of Zhou (Zhouli), Office of Spring: The Lesser Minister of the Ancestral Temple uses black millet wine to perform the mǐ ritual. Yang Shen, Gazetteer of Yunnan Mountains and Rivers (Yunnan Shanchuan Zhi): Xierhai Lake is located east of the prefectural capital; it is the ancient Yeyu River, also known as Mǐ Lake. Collected Rhymes (Jiyun): Pronounced mǐn (rising tone); also pronounced miǎn (rising tone). The meaning remains the same.