Chen Collection, Middle Volume. Radical: Tree (mù). Character: Qing. Kangxi strokes: 18. Page 559, Entry 04. Pronounced qing (rising tone). Shuowen Jiezi (Explaining Simple and Analyzing Compound Characters): A type of hemp plant. Formed from the phonetic element qing. Erya Yi (Wings to the Erya): The qing plant grows four to five feet, or sometimes six to seven feet high. Its leaves resemble those of ramie but are thinner, and its fruit resembles hemp seeds. People currently use it to weave cloth. Sometimes also written in a variant form. Rites of Zhou (Zhouli), Office of Spring, Superintendent of Hemp and Grass notes: The term grass refers to kudzu and qing. Also, in the Tang Materia Medica (Tang Bencao), it is written as meng. Meng hemp is another name for white hemp. Also, pronounced jiong (rising tone). Same meaning.