Wei Collection, Middle Volume Radical: Silk (mì) 繫 Kangxi strokes: 19 Page 915, Entry 18 Guangyun: Pronounced ji (falling tone). Jiyun, Yunhui, and Zhengyun agree on the pronunciation ji (falling tone). Shuowen: To connect. Another meaning is inferior cotton wool. Yupian: To restrain, to detain. Leipian: To moor. Jiyun: Pronounced xi (level tone). Meaning is the same. Guangyun, Jiyun, and Yunhui: Pronounced xi (falling tone). Book of Changes (Yijing) Xici commentary: The Xi Ci, or Appended Judgments, refers to the sages appending this text beneath the hexagrams and lines. It also states that the term signifies taking a guideline and binding it. Shuwen: Xi is the original form of xi. It also means to continue. Rites of Zhou (Zhouli), Offices of Heaven, Grand Administrator: To bind the people of the states with the nine ranks. Commentary: To link or connect. Ganlu Zishu: Xi is interchangeably used with xi. Jiyun: Xi is sometimes written as xi. Leipian: Sometimes written as [variant form].