Si Collection, Middle Volume Radical: Fire (huo) Character: Xi Kangxi strokes: 14 Page 678, Entry 36 According to the Book of Rhymes (Guangyun) and the Collection of Rhymes (Jiyun), it is pronounced xi. According to the Jade Chapters (Yupian), it means to burn away the grass around something. According to the Book of Rhymes (Guangyun), it is a wildfire. As mentioned in the Mao Commentary (Jian) to the Great Odes (Daya) in the Book of Odes (Shijing): The reason the oak and brushwood trees grow luxuriantly is that people burn the grass around them, cultivating and caring for them so that nothing harms them. The Explanation of Sounds (Shiwen) states: Mowing and burning grass is called xi. It is also pronounced xi and also pronounced xu. According to the Collection of Rhymes (Jiyun), it is pronounced he. It refers to burning grass on a mountain with fire.