Shen Collection, Upper Volume Radical: Grass (cǎo) Character: xi Kangxi Strokes: 16 Page 1050, Entry 04 Tang Rhymes (Tangyun): Pronounced xi. Jade Chapter (Yupian): A type of grass. Literary Expositor (Erya), Interpretation of Grasses: Fan is what is known as tu xi. Also, Collected Rhymes (Jiyun): Pronounced hu. Refers to a shoe insole. History of the Southern Dynasties (Nan shi), Biography of Yu Wanzhi: When Yu Wanzhi served as the Lesser Prefecture official, he still wore wooden clogs to court. Emperor Gao took his clogs to inspect them and found that they were worn and blackened, the front was slanted and thin, and the broken parts of the shoe insoles were tied together with straw rope.