Wei Collection, Upper Volume Radical: Bamboo (zhú) 篠 Kangxi Strokes: 16 Page 894, Entry 13 Guangyun: Pronounced xian (level tone). Jiyun, Yunhui, Zhengyun: Pronounced xian (rising tone). Guangyun: Fine bamboo. Bamboo Treatise (Zhupu) by Dai Kaizhi: The xiao bamboo grows on Zou Mountain in Lu Commandery and is suitable for making sheng (a reed pipe wind instrument). Book of Documents (Shangshu), Tribute of Yu (Yugong): The xiao and dang bamboo were distributed. Commentary: Xiao is a bamboo arrow shaft. Sub-commentary: Xiao is a type of small bamboo. Erya Sub-commentary: Xiao is also called a bamboo arrow. Rites of Zhou (Zhouli), Offices of Heaven, Grand Administrator: Using the nine categories of tribute to provide for the needs of the state, the fifth is material tribute. Note: Material tribute includes chun, gan, gua, bai, xiao, and dang bamboo. Bamboo Treatise (Zhupu): Islands have xiao bamboo, the largest being like chopsticks, solid inside and hard outside, which do not bend when pulled; they have few branches and leaves and appear like withered chopsticks. Also interchangeable with xiao (flute). Ma Rong, Rhapsody on the Long Flute (Changdi Fu): The forest xiao and creeping vitex. Note: Xiao (flute) and xiao (bamboo) are interchangeable. Zhengyun: In the seal script it is written as xiao. Now it is written as xiao.