Wu Collection, Upper Volume Radical: Jade (yù) Pián Kangxi stroke count: 13 Page 733, Entry 17 In Broad Rhymes (Guangyun), it is pronounced pián. In Collected Rhymes (Jiyun), it is pronounced pián. In Collected Rhymes (Jiyun), it refers to a type of pearl. It is the same as the character for a type of pearl (pín). In Five Sounds Collected Rhymes (Wuyin Jiyun), it refers to a Ban pearl, which is the same as the previous character. It is also equivalent to the character for a sword scabbard (bǐng). In Book of Odes (Shijing), Lesser Odes (Xiao Ya), it mentions the scabbard and the chape (ornament on a scabbard). In Explanations of the Text (Shiwen), the term for scabbard is sometimes written as this character. It is pronounced bǐng. It refers to a sword scabbard. In Explanations of Names (Shiming), the ornament at the lower end of a sword is called this character. This character denotes the meaning of humble, referring to its position at the bottom.