Chen Collection, Middle Volume Radical: Tree (mù) Yi Kangxi stroke count: 7 Page 512, Entry 05 Pronounced yi (falling tone). Shuowen Jiezi (Shuowen): The name of a fruit. Erya: Explaining Trees (Erya): Liu, is called liu-yi. Commentary: The liu fruit grows in the mountains; the fruit resembles a pear, is sweet and sour in taste, and has a hard pit. It originates from Jiaozhi. Also, Erya: Explaining Palaces (Erya): A zhi is called a yi; it is a wooden stake. Zuo Tradition (Zuo Zhuan), 17th year of Duke Xiang: Zang Jian died after being impaled by a wooden stake. Also used as a stake to tether wild beasts. Zhuangzi: In the World of Men (Zhuangzi): If a tree grows to the thickness of one or two hand-grips, someone looking for a stake to tether a monkey will cut it down. Rhyme Collection (Yunhui) and Shuowen Jiezi (Shuowen): The character for a wooden stake was originally written as yi, and the character for the fruit name was written as yi. Nowadays, the character for the wooden stake is written as yi, while yi is used exclusively for the character meaning to hunt with a tethered arrow.