Wei Collection, Middle Volume Radical: Silk (mì) Character: Net Kangxi Stroke Count: 14 Page 928, Entry 01 Guangyun: Pronounced wang. Jiyun, Yunhui, and Zhengyun: Pronounced wang. Shuowen: Originally written as net. Sometimes written in a variant form or in a clerical simplified form. The modern form is written with the silk radical as net. Book of Changes (Yijing), Appended Statements: Created knotted cords to serve as nets, for hunting and for fishing. Zhu Xi, Original Meaning: It is the same as net. Book of Documents (Shangshu), Pan Geng: Like a net attached to a main rope. Book of Odes (Shijing), Odes of Bei: The setting of fish nets. Also, Chu Ci, Summoning the Soul: Net-patterned doors with red tassels. Commentary: Net-patterned doors refers to woven patterns of thread.