Shen Collection, Middle Volume Radical: Insect (chóng) Total strokes: 13 Page 1083, Entry 01 Tang Rhymes (Tangyun): Pronounced shui (falling tone) Rhyme Collection (Yunhui), Correct Rhymes (Zhengyun): Pronounced shui (falling tone) Shuowen: The skin shed by a snake or cicada. Zhuangzi, Allegories (Yuyan pian): I am the shell of a cicada, the slough of a snake; I resemble them but am not them. Biographies of Spirit Immortals (Shenxian zhuan): Three days after Wang Fangping died, his corpse suddenly vanished at night; his clothes and cap remained untouched, like the slough of a snake. Records of the Grand Historian (Shiji), Biography of Qu Yuan: To shed one's skin in the midst of filth, like a cicada. Preface to the Eulogy of Dongfang Shuo by Xiahou Zhan: Shedding one's skin like a cicada and changing like a dragon, abandoning the secular world to ascend to immortality. Broad Rhymes (Guangyun): Pronounced tuo (falling tone). Pronounced tuo (falling tone). The meaning is the same. Collected Rhymes (Jiyun): Pronounced shuo (entering tone). It refers to the cicada's return to its shell. The slough of a cicada is also rhymed as shi (entering tone). Guo Pu, Wandering Immortal Poems (Youxian shi): Exhaling and inhaling to reach true harmony, suddenly one morning I cast off my body. Drifting and rising above the Great Clarity, dimming and fading, the reflection is extinguished forever. Category Anthology (Leipian): Pronounced yue (entering tone). Yangzi, Dialects (Fangyan): A wasp is sometimes called youtui. Wide Refinement (Boya): Youtui refers to the mason wasp.