Wei Collection, Middle Volume Radical: Silk (mì) Kangxi stroke count: 17 Page 936, Entry 06 Pronounced piao (rising tone). Shuowen Jiezi (Shuowen): A light blue-white silk textile. Guangya: Piao is a blue color. Shiming: Piao is like floating. Floating is a light blue color. There is jade-blue piao, sky-blue piao, and bone-pale piao, all named after the objects their colors resemble. Guangyun: A blue-yellow color. Book of the Later Han (Hou Hanshu): Merchants may only wear clothes of piao and xiang (yellow-silk) colors. Songs of Chu (Chuci): Using silk of a kingfisher-green color to make lower garments. Pronounced piao (falling tone). Meaning is the same. Pronounced piao (falling tone). Book of the Former Han (Hanshu): The phoenix flies lightly toward the high sky. Commentary: Piao piao describes the appearance of flying lightly and gracefully. Mu Hua, Sea Rhapsody (Hai Fu): The multitude of immortals appeared vague and ethereal. Textual research: Guangya: A gray-blue color. Corrected according to the original text from gray to piao.