Wei Collection, Middle Volume
Radical: Silk (mì)
Character: 細
Kangxi strokes: 11
Page 919, Entry 36
Broad Rhymes (Guangyun): Pronounced xi.
Collected Rhymes (Jiyun) and Correct Rhymes (Zhengyun): Pronounced xi.
Explaining Graphs and Analyzing Characters (Shuowen): Written as the variant form (bi). Meaning minute.
Category of Graphs (Leipian): The clerical script form is written as xi.
Jade Chapter (Yupian): Small.
Book of Documents (Shujing), Travels of the Hounds (Lv'ao): Do not be prideful regarding small (xi) conduct.
Commentary: To treat small matters with light disregard.
Zuo Tradition (Zuozhuan), Twenty-ninth Year of Duke Xiang: Its minutiae are already excessive.
Commentary: Criticizing their troublesome complexity.
Furthermore, in the History of the Northern Dynasties (Beishi), Biography of Yuan Sili: Why must there be such great detail (zixi)?