Shen Collection, Lower Volume Radical: Insect (chóng) Character: tui Kangxi Stroke Count: 13 Page 1083, Entry 27 Tang Rhymes (Tangyun): Pronounced shui. Rhyme Meeting (Yunhui) and Correct Rhymes (Zhengyun): Pronounced shui. Explanation of Graphs (Shuowen): The skin shed by a snake or cicada. Zhuangzi, Metaphorical Words (Yuyan pian): I am like the shell of a cicada or the slough of a snake; they resemble the real thing but are not. Biographies of Immortals (Shenxian zhuan): Three days after Wang Fangping died, his corpse suddenly disappeared at night, leaving only his clothes and cap, much like a snake sloughing its skin. Records of the Grand Historian (Shiji), Biography of Qu Yuan: To shed worldly filth like a cicada sheds its skin. Xiahou Zhan, Preface to the Eulogy of Dongfang Shuo: Shedding the skin like a cicada and transforming like a dragon, casting off the mundane to ascend to immortality. Also, Wide Rhymes (Guangyun): Pronounced tui. Pronounced tuo. The meaning is the same. Collected Rhymes (Jiyun): Pronounced shuo. Also refers to the larva of an insect. Cicada slough also rhymes with the sound shi. Guo Pu, Poems on Wandering Immortals (Youxian shi): Exhaling and inhaling to reach true harmony, one morning suddenly the empty shell is discarded. Floating away to traverse the great purity, gazing into the distance until the image fades away. Also, Classified Compilation (Leipian): Pronounced yue. Yangzi, Regional Speech (Fangyan): The wasp is sometimes called youtui. Extensive Elegant (Boya): Youtui refers to the potter wasp.