Zi Collection, Upper Volume Radical: Grass (cǎo) Pronounced xi (rising tone) A tool for covering a boat. In Jiang Lu's "Poem on a Sunken Boat on a Shoal" (Jin Zhu Bai Chuan Shi), there is the sentence "Grass vines cover the long burial." In "Jiyun" (Jiyun), this character was originally written as . It is also written as . Page 130, Entry 09