Chou Collection, Middle Volume Radical: Earth (tǔ) Character: Ye Kangxi stroke count: 11 Page 230, Entry 13 According to the Sound Rhymes (Jiyun), Ye is an ancient form of the character for field. Note: see details under the Village radical, four-stroke entry. Records of the Grand Historian (Shiji), Biography of Sima Xiangru: The rich dew moistens the wild grasses without refusal. Also a surname. During the Zhengtong era of the Ming dynasty, there was a military officer in Nanchang named Ye You, a native of Gu'an.