Si Collection, Upper Volume Radical: Water (shuǐ) Entry: Xin Kangxi strokes: 15 Page 648, Entry 24 Records of the Grand Historian (Shiji), Biography of the Physician-in-Chief Cang Gong: The illness resulted from heavy sweating until the skin dried. The term xin refers to perspiration evaporating after the removal of clothing. Commentary: The character is pronounced xun. According to the Supplement to the Collection of Characters (Zihui bu), writing it as the variant shown is erroneous. The right side of the character is written as specified, not as the variant form.