Wei Collection, Upper Volume Radical: Rice (mǐ) Kangxi stroke count: 25 Page 908, Entry 01 Pronounced tiao. As defined in the Analytical Dictionary of Characters (Shuowen): To sell grain. In the Records of the Grand Historian (Shiji), chapter on biographies of money-makers: When grain sells for twenty, the farmers suffer; when it sells for ninety, the merchants suffer. The commentary known as the Investigation of Obscurities (Suoyin) states: This means that when rice is cheap, the farmers suffer. Also, per the Collected Rhymes (Jiyun), pronounced tiao. A surname. During the Jin dynasty, there was a person named Tiao Cai.