Wu Collection, Lower Volume Radical: Stone (shí) Character: suì Kangxi stroke count: 13 Page 832, Entry 05 Pronounced suì According to the Explaining Graphs and Analyzing Characters (Shuowen Jiezi), it means to break. It also means to scatter or to break into small pieces. As recorded in the Records of the Grand Historian (Shiji), Zhao Family Records: My head and the jade disk were both shattered against the pillar. It also refers to something trivial or annoying. In the History of the Later Han (Houhan Shu), Biography of Huang Ba: The details were minute and dense, at first appearing trivial and fragmented. Also, as written in the work by Wang Tong, Zhongshuo, Chapter on Serving the Ruler: Xie Zhuang and Wang Rong were men of the ancient times who focused on the trivial, and their writing was fragmentary.