Chou Collection, Upper Volume Radical: Mouth (kǒu) Pi Kangxi Strokes: 19 Page 213, Entry 37 Pronounced pi (dipping tone). According to the Shuowen Jiezi (Explaining Single-Component Graphs and Analyzing Compound Characters), it means great. It is also used as a personal name. In the Zuo Tradition (Zuozhuan), it refers to the Grand Minister of the state of Wu, Pi. According to the Collected Rhymes (Jiyun), it is sometimes written in a variant form (pi), and also written as pi. In the Songs of Chu (Chuci), Nine Longings (Jiusi), it says, one resents Pi for monopolizing power, leaving both the states of Chu and Wu hollow.