Si Collection, Upper Volume Radical: Water (shuǐ) Entry: Ni Kangxi stroke count: 12 Page 630, Entry 22 According to the Sound Compendium of Rhymes (Jiyun), pronounced ni. Meaning the edge of the water. Also pronounced ya. Identical to ni. Meaning an edge or boundary. In the Book of Master Zhuang (Zhuangzi), specifically the Great Ancestral Teacher chapter, it appears in the phrase, Not knowing the start or the end (ni). Sometimes written in the variant form ni. Duan refers to a mountain peak. Ni refers to the edge of the water. Also pronounced yi. The meaning is the same.