Si Collection, Lower Volume Radical: Dog (quǎn) Character: Pī Kangxi Stroke Count: 9 Page 708, Entry 12 Collected Rhymes (Jiyun) and Rhyme Collection (Yunhui) state it is pronounced pī. According to Collected Rhymes (Jiyun), this character was originally written as pī, referring to the young of a wildcat. According to Collected Rhymes (Jiyun), it is also pronounced pī. In Essay on Feudalism (Fengjian Lun) by Liu Zongyuan: The grass and trees are dense and overgrown, and the deer and pigs are in a state of confusion.