Wei Collection, Middle Volume Radical: Silk (mì) 縰 Kangxi Stroke Count: 17 Page 935, Entry 30 Broad Rhymes (Guangyun), Collected Rhymes (Jiyun): Pronounced xi (third tone). Classified Anthology (Leipian): The character lian (first tone) is sometimes written in a variant form (shǐ). Book of Rites (Liji), Inner Chapters (Neize): Combing, wearing a hair-covering, and pinning the hair. Commentary: The hair-covering is what encloses the hair. Also in Song Yu, Gaotang Rhapsody (Gaotang fu): Appearing in great numbers and abundance. Commentary: The appearance of many things. The character shǐ is the same as the character lian (first tone).