Shen Collection, Upper Volume Radical: Grass (cǎo) Wei Kangxi Stroke Count: 14 Page 1037, Entry 12 Tang Rhymes (Tangyun): Pronounced wei. Shuowen Jiezi (Shuowen): A plant known as diezhu. Erya, Interpretation of Grasses (Erya, Shicao): Wei is diezhu. Commentary: This is the five-flavor plant. Also, in Collected Rhymes (Jiyun): Pronounced mei. The meaning is the same. It is also written in a variant form (mo). Textual Research: In Shuowen Jiezi, it is written as diezhu. In Erya, Interpretation of Grasses, it is written as wei, diezhu. We have carefully corrected the two occurrences of the character to read as zhu, in accordance with the original text.