Wu Collection, Lower Volume Radical: Grain (hé) Zi Kangxi stroke count: 8 Page 849, Entry 09 Broad Rhymes (Guangyun): Pronounced zi (rising tone) Collected Rhymes (Jiyun): Pronounced zi (rising tone) Correct Rhymes (Zhengyun): Pronounced zi (rising tone) From the Explanation of Writing (Shuowen Jiezi): To bank soil around the roots of grain. Book of Odes (Shijing), Lesser Odes: Some are weeding, some are banking. It is written with the plow radical as zi. History of the Former Han (Qianhan Shu): Cites the Book of Odes using the variant form zi. Also, Collected Rhymes (Jiyun): Pronounced zai (falling tone). Common term for grain growing in a dense, tangled manner, referred to as zi.