Wu Collection, Lower Volume Radical: Grain (hé) Character: xian Kangxi strokes: 8 Page 849, Entry 16 Broad Rimes (Guangyun) and Collected Rimes (Jiyun): Pronounced xian. Yang Xiong's Dialects (Fangyan): In the Jiangnan region, nonglutinous rice is called xian. Sometimes also written in a variant form.