Shen Collection, Upper Volume Radical: Grass (cǎo) 荵 Kangxi strokes: 13 Page 1032, Entry 06 Pronounced ren (rising tone). Shuowen Jiezi (Explaining Single-component Characters and Analyzing Compound Characters): A winter grass. Erya (Approaching Elegance), Interpretation of Grasses: The burdock is called yin-ren. Commentary: It resembles perilla and is covered in hairs. Nowadays, in the Jiangdong region, it is called yin-ren. It can be pickled and stored as salted vegetables, or boiled and eaten. Also, in the rising tone. Jiyun (Collection of Rhymes): Pronounced ren (falling-rising tone). The meaning is the same.