Shen Collection, Middle Volume Radical: Insect (chóng) Entry: Ni Kangxi strokes: 14 Page 1087, Entry 35 Pronounced ni. Erya (Erya): Explaining Insects: Ni, the cold cicada. Note: It is the cold cicada (hanjiang). Yangzi (Yangzi): Fangyan (Fangyan): Cicadas that are black and red are called ni. Also, yingni, name of an insect. Shenyi Jing (Shenyi Jing): Flying insects hide in deer ears during the end of summer, named yingni. Also the same as ni (rainbow). Erya (Erya): Explaining Heaven: The ni is the secondary rainbow. Note: The female rainbow. Also pronounced nie. Yunhui (Yunhui): A bent rainbow. Hanshu (Hanshu): Treatise on Astronomy: Embracing a hanging ni. Note: The male is called hong, the female is called ni. Ru Chun says: Ni is read as nie. Jinshu (Jinshu): Biography of Wang Yun: Shen Yue showed his Jiaoju Fu (Rhapsody on Suburban Living) to Wang Yun. When Wang Yun read until the part about the female ni curling, Shen Yue clapped his hands and exclaimed with joy, I was always afraid people would call it ni (level tone). This means the character was originally read in the entering tone, and he feared people would call it by the level tone. Also, Guangyun (Guangyun): The ni of the cold cicada is also pronounced nie. Also, jieni, the appearance of stretching the head. Wang Yanshou (Wang Yanshou): Rhapsody on the Lingguang Palace of Lu (Lu Lingguang Dian Fu): The white deer stretches its head on the bracket set. Also, the ni of a rainbow. Yunbu (Yunbu): Rhymes with the sound yi. Cao Zhi (Cao Zhi): Qi Qi (Seven Stimuli): Overpowering the feudal lords, galloping through the current age. Waving the sleeves brings up wind in the nine provinces; being generous creates the energy of a rainbow. Textual research: In the Rhapsody on the Lingguang Palace of Lu, Wang Yi has been corrected to Wang Yanshou according to the original text.