Wei Collection, Upper Volume Radical: Silk (mì) 繡 Kangxi strokes: 18 Page 939, Entry 18 Guangyun (Guangyun), Jiyun (Jiyun), Yunhui (Yunhui), Zhengyun (Zhengyun): Pronounced xiù. Shuowen Jiezi (Shuowen): The five colors are complete. Shiming (Shiming): Xiu means to cultivate, meaning the patterns are cultivated and refined. Book of Documents (Shujing): Embroidered with axe-head and two-backed patterns. Rites of Zhou (Zhouli), Winter Official, Record of Tradesmen (Kaogongji): The work of painting and embroidering, when the five colors are complete, is called xiu. Also a surname. Surname Urgent Primer (Xingshi Jijiu Pian): During the Han dynasty, there was a person named Xiu Junshi. Also Jiyun (Jiyun): Pronounced xiāo. Leipian (Leipian): A type of silk. Book of Odes (Shijing), Tang Odes: Plain clothes with red embroidery. Jian (Jian): Xiu should be read as xiao. Yunbu (Yunbu): Should be pronounced as xiao. Textual research: Rites of Zhou (Zhouli), Winter Official, Record of Tradesmen (Kaogongji): The work of painting and embroidering, when the five colors are complete, is xiu. This has been corrected from the original text to read is called xiu.