You Collection, Lower Volume Radical: Wine (yǒu) Kangxi strokes: 26 Page 1289, Entry 29 Tang Rhymes (Tangyun), Collection Rhymes (Jiyun), and Rhyme Meeting (Yunhui) define it as pronounced xi, and Correct Rhymes (Zhengyun) as pronounced xi. Explanatory Dictionary of Characters (Shuowen): To strain wine. Xu says: To strain is like using a bamboo sieve to extract the liquid. Book of Odes (Shijing), Lesser Odes: To strain wine is a beautiful act. Commentary: To use a basket for this purpose is called strain; to use a mat is called filter. Explication of Texts: Refers to straining wine with a basket. History of the Former Han (Qianhan), Biography of Ma Yuan: Slaughtering oxen and straining wine. Also: To divide. History of the Former Han (Qianhan), Treatise on Rivers and Canals: Then divided two channels to lead the Yellow River. Annotation: Meng Kang says: Strain means to divide. To divide the flow and release its turbulence. Liu Xiang, Garden of Stories (Shuoyuan): Yu divided the five lakes and settled the East Sea. Also: Sometimes written in a variant form (si). Old Book of Tang (Tangshu), Biography of Gao Shilian: Attached to the old canal, splitting and drawing water out to the sides. Also: Pronounced li. Also: Pronounced shu. Also: Pronounced xi (falling tone). The meaning is the same. Also: Pronounced li. To separate water from dregs.