Wei Collection, Upper Volume Radical: Rice (mǐ) 糦 Kangxi stroke count: 18 Page 913, Entry 06 Pronounced chì. Shuowen Jiezi (Shuowen): Refers to wine and food. Guangyun (Guangyun): Refers to a great sacrifice, and also to millet. Book of Odes (Shijing), Lesser Odes: To cleanse and purify for the offering of millet. Commentary: Millet refers to wine and food. Also in the Odes of Shang: To offer the great millet. Annotation: Millet, specifically broomcorn and glutinous millet. Sub-commentary: Refers to the offerings made to assist in sacrifices, which consist only of broomcorn and glutinous millet. Because the character contains the radical for rice, it is known to refer to these grains. Also refers to cooked food. Fangyan (Fangyan): Refers to being cooked. From the north of the Yellow River, between the states of Zhao and Wei, food cooked by fire is called rotten, while food cooked by steam is called chi. Also, according to Jiyun (Jiyun), pronounced xī. The meaning is the same. Yunhui Xiaobu (Yunhui Xiaobu): Commonly written as the variant form (chì).