You Collection, Middle Volume Radical: Foot (zú) Character: Xian Kangxi strokes: 13 Page 1224, Entry 19 Tang Rhymes (Tangyun), Collected Rhymes (Jiyun), Rhyme Meetings (Yunhui), Correct Rhymes (Zhengyun): Pronounced xian. Explanation of Graphs (Shuowen): Bare feet touching the ground. Book of Documents (Shujing), Chapter on the Charge to Yue: If one walks barefoot without looking at the ground, their feet will be injured. Book of Rites (Liji), Questions on Mourning: Wearing mourning clothes and walking barefoot. Records of the Grand Historian (Shiji), Biography of Chancellor Xiao: He entered, barefoot, to offer apologies. Also, Collected Rhymes (Jiyun): Pronounced qian. Also, pronounced sun. The meaning is the same. Also, pronounced xian. Pian-xian refers to the appearance of walking in circles. One source says it refers to the posture of a dance. Also used interchangeably with jian. Book of Han (Hanshu), Annals of Emperor Wen: Those who were supposed to provide for funeral rites and attend the mourning should all be without shoes. Annotation: Meng Kang states that jian means barefoot. Jin Zhuo states that the Han language uses the character for barefoot. Barefoot refers to being without shoes.