Hai Collection, Middle Volume Radical: Bird (niǎo) Shi Kangxi strokes: 14 Page 1482, Entry 10 Pronounced shi. Classic of Poetry (Erya), Interpretation of Birds: The shi bird is the pigeon (jiu). Commentary: It is the cuckoo (bugu). In the region east of the Yangtze River, it is called the harvest-grain bird. Sub-commentary: One name is the grain-striking bird; another name is the mulberry pigeon. The Dialects (Fangyan) claims it is the hoopoe (daisheng), but this is incorrect. Book of Odes (Shijing), Odes of Cao: The pigeon is in the mulberry tree, with seven of its young. Also written as shi. History of the Former Han (Qian Han Shu), Biography of Bao Xuan: View them as one, as in the poem of the pigeon. Commentary: It means that a noble person spreads virtue and kindness, and it should be like this. Also written separately as jiao. Yangzi, The Dialects (Fangyan): The pigeon, between the Liang and Song states, is called jiao. Also written as jiao.