Chen Collection, Lower Volume Radical: Lack (qiàn) Character: Yi Kangxi strokes: 14 Page 571, Entry 06 Tang Rhymes (Tangyun): Pronounced yi. Collected Rhymes (Jiyun): Pronounced yi. Explaining Graphs and Analyzing Characters (Shuowen): People laughing at each other and mocking one another. Sometimes written in a variant form (ye), or also abbreviated as a variant form (chuai). Expanded Rhymes (Guangyun): Pronounced ye. Collected Rhymes (Jiyun): Pronounced ye. The meaning is the same. Also written as a variant form (ye). The character for the variant form (ye) was originally written with the radical for hand (shou).