Si Collection, Upper Volume Radical: Water (shuǐ) 浥 Kangxi strokes: 11 Page 624, Entry 10 Pronounced yì Shuowen Jiezi (Explanation of Simple and Compound Characters): Means moist or damp. Also refers to soaking or saturation. Book of Odes (Shijing): Saturated is the dew on the road. Pronounced yì Meaning is the same as above. Pronounced yì Refers to low-lying or sunken terrain. History of the Former Han Dynasty (Qian Hanshu): Crossing the waves to head toward the low-lying areas. Commentary: Qu-yi refers to water flowing toward a deep abyss. Pronounced yā Describes the appearance of water rushing downward. Guo Pu: Rhapsody on the Yangtze River (Jiang Fu): At times it is sunken and at times it is piled up. Textual Research: History of the Former Han Dynasty (Qian Hanshu), Biography of Sima Xiangru: The text originally read cross-that-tend-dip. According to the original text, cross-that has been corrected to cross-waves.