Si Collection, Upper Volume Radical: Water (shuǐ) 瀹 Kangxi strokes: 21 Page 661, Entry 16 Pronounced yào Pronounced yào According to the Analytical Dictionary of Characters (Shuowen): The meaning is to soak. Ceremonial Rites (Yili), Section on Mortuary Rites for Scholars: Three baskets woven of thatch, the contents of which have all been soaked (yue). Commentary: All have been soaked in hot water, not processed through an edible route, thereby expressing respect. Also, according to the Jade Chapters (Yupian): The meaning is to boil. Essential Techniques for the Peasantry (Qimin Yaoshu): Contains a method for boiling eggs. Also, according to the Dictionary of Character Variations (Pian Yun): The same as yù (to cook/sell). It refers to putting meat and vegetables into soup and removing them as soon as they are slightly cooked. Also, to clear or drain, meaning to wash or remove. Zhuangzi, Knowledge Wandering North: Wash the heart and cleanse the spirit. Also, tanyue, describing a wavering or unsteady appearance. Also, yue, describing the appearance of rapid water flow. Guo Pu, Rhapsody on the Yangtze River (Jiang Fu): Yue. Also, according to the Collected Rhymes (Jiyun): Pronounced yào. The appearance of clear water. According to the Collected Rhymes (Jiyun): Sometimes written in a variant form.