Xu Collection, Lower Volume Radical: Food (shí) Kangxi Strokes: 17 Page 1421, Entry 01 Comprehensive Collection of Characters (Zihui) Pronounced xiàn (falling tone). For all foods made of rice or flour, those which have a pit dug in the center filled with various seasoned fillings are called stuffing (xiàn). Sometimes it is also written in a variant form. Ouyang Xiu, Records of Returning to the Fields (Guitianlu): In the capital, those who sell sour stuffed buns (suanxian) have them wrongly written by the common people as sour-ladle buns (suanyaoxian). Witty people refer to them as handsome-munching (juntao), likely because they do not know that the character for stuffing is derived from the pit (xian) radical, and mistakenly write it as derived from the ladle (yao) radical.