Shen Collection, Lower Volume Radical: Insect (chóng) Xian Kangxi strokes: 13 Page 1084, Entry 11 Tang Dynasty Rhyme Dictionary (Tangyun): Pronounced xian (falling tone). Name of an insect. Explaining Graphs and Analyzing Characters (Shuowen Jiezi): It is a silkworm-like insect. See the entry for the character yi for further details. Also in Collected Rhymes (Jiyun): Pronounced xian (level tone). The meaning is the same. Also pronounced xian (rising tone). Classified Compilation (Leipian): A small clam. Book of Sui (Suishu), Biography of Liu Zhen: He enjoyed eating xian. Because his father's personal name was Xian, he referred to xian as flat snails. Also a lake name. Records of the Grand Historian (Shiji), Annals of Xia, Commentary: The Three Rivers. One river flows southeast for seventy li from Xian Lake, and is called the Upper River. Sometimes written in a variant form. Textual research: In Explaining Graphs and Analyzing Characters (Shuowen Jiezi), it is written as yi-nu. Following the original text, yi has been corrected to refer to the specific insect mentioned.