Si Collection, Upper Volume Radical: Water (shuǐ) Character: Xi Kangxi strokes: 12 Page 629, Entry 05 Pronounced xi. Shuowen Jiezi (Shuowen) states: To wash rice. Mencius (Mengzi) states: Collected the washed rice and departed. Also, xili, the sound of rain. Xiahou Xiaoruoxue Fu (Hanxue Fu) states: Gathered the sound of falling sleet like the pattering of rain. Also, Xichuan, the name of a county. Guangyu Ji (Guangyu ji) states: Belongs to Nanyang Prefecture in Henan; it was Xi County during the Han dynasty, and Xichuan during the Later Wei dynasty. Jiyun (Jiyun) notes it is also written in a variant form.