Shen Collection, Middle Volume Radical: Insect (chóng) Entry: Yin Kangxi stroke count: 17 Page 1095, Entry 29 Pronounced yin. According to the Classified Collection of Characters (Leipian), this is the name of an insect, the cicada. Also written as qinyi. In the Lament for Qu Yuan by Jia Yi, it is written: How could one follow the shrimp, the leech, and the earthworm? Pronounced with a level tone. According to the Collected Rhymes (Jiyun), pronounced yin. The meaning is the same as the earthworm. See the detailed note under the entry for earthworm. According to the Supplement to the Collection of Characters (Zihuibu), it refers to a divine earthworm, five or six spans in circumference and over ten rods in length. In the Records of the Grand Historian (Shiji), Book of the Suburban Sacrifices (Fengshan shu), it is written: A yellow dragon and an earthworm appeared. In the Records of the Grand Historian (Shiji), Book of the Pitch Pipes (Lüshu), it is written: Yin signifies that the myriad things begin to grow, which is the state of yin.