Wu Collection, Lower Volume Radical: Grain (hé) Zi Kangxi stroke count: 11 Page 852, Entry 24 According to the Sound of Rhymes (Jiyun), pronounced zi. According to the Explaining Graphs and Analyzing Characters (Shuowen), it refers to panicled millet. The original form was written as the character composed of grain and the phonetic component. Alternatively, it is written using the phonetic component ci. It is also synonymous with the character ci. Cross-reference the note for the character ci under the Rice radical.