You Collection, Middle Volume Radical: Red (chì) Entry: 赮 Kangxi Stroke Count: 16 Page 1214, Entry 17 Pronounced xia. Shuowen Jiezi (Explanation of Simple and Compound Characters) states: Red color. Yupian (Jade Chapters) states: The red color of the east. Also written as the variant form (xiá). Book of Han (Hanshu), Treatise on Astronomy: Lightning and the red glow of thunderclaps lighting up the night are the movements of yang energy. Guo Pu, Rhapsody on the River (Jiang Fu): Precipices ten thousand fathoms high, standing like walls with red and variegated colors.