Yin Collection, Middle Volume Radical: Cloth (jīn) Page 332, Entry 03 Pronounced qún. In the Shuowen Jiezi (Dictionary of Explaining Graphs), it refers to a lower garment. According to the Shiming (Explanation of Names), it is a skirt; it connects the panels of a garment. It also refers to a skirt border, where a border is applied to a skirt. In the commentary to the Jijiupian (Urgent Need), it states that a skirt is a lower garment, also known as a pei, or a bai. According to the Guangya (Broad Refinements), to wrap or drape is a pei or a skirt. According to Yang Xiong’s Dialects (Fangyan), in the region of Wei, a skirt is called a pei, and to wrap or drape is called a skirt. According to the Yunhui (Collection of Rhymes), a middle skirt is a garment worn next to the body. In the Biography of Shi Fen from the History of the Former Han (Qian Hanshu), it is written that he took his own middle skirt and latrine bucket to wash and clean them himself. The commentary by Yan Shigu states: A middle skirt is like what is called a middle garment today.