Xu Collection, Lower Volume Radical: Food (shí) Kangxi Strokes: 17 Page 1421, Entry 34 Dictionary of Chinese Characters (Zihui): Pronounced xiàn. For any food made of rice or wheat flour, when the center is hollowed out and filled with various flavored ingredients, it is called filling (xiàn). Sometimes also written in a variant form. Ouyang Xiu, Records of Returning to the Fields (Guitianlu): In the capital, there were people selling sour-filled dumplings (suanxian), which commoners mistakenly wrote with a different character for xian. Witty individuals jokingly referred to them as jun-tao, likely because they did not know the character xian originated from the pit radical and mistakenly assumed it was from the ladle radical.