Si Collection, Upper Volume Radical: Water (shuǐ) Wei Kangxi strokes: 11 Page 623, Entry 20 Guangyun: Pronounced wei (rising tone) Jiyun: Pronounced wei (rising tone) Wei refers to the draining of seawater. In the Book of Zhuangzi (Zhuangzi), Autumn Floods chapter, it is written as wei lu. It also describes the appearance of flowing water. It is the same as the character mei. In the Book of Odes (Shijing), Beifeng section, it appears as the river water is mei mei. In the Han Commentary on the Book of Odes (Hanshi), it is written as river water is wei wei. According to the Classified Dictionary (Leipian), it also refers to the bottom of a spring.