Si Collection, Upper Volume Radical: Water (shuǐ) 溪 Kangxi stroke count: 14 Page 640, Entry 22 Broad Rhymes (Guangyun): Pronounced xi Collected Rhymes (Jiyun), Rhymes Compilation (Yunhui): Pronounced xi Same as the character xi. Explaining Graphs and Analyzing Characters (Shuowen): Refers to a small water channel in the mountains where water cannot flow freely. Additionally, water flowing into a river is called xi. Broad Rhymes (Guangyun): Sometimes also written in a variant form (xi).