Chen Collection, Middle Volume. Radical: Tree (mù). Kangxi stroke count: 13. Page 542, Entry 09. Pronounced yíng. Shuowen Jiezi (Shuowen) defines this as a pillar. Xu Kai notes that the term implies a state of pillars standing opposite one another. Book of Odes (Shijing), Lesser Odes: Large are those pillars. Spring and Autumn Annals (Chunqiu), 23rd Year of Duke Zhuang: Painted the pillars of the Huan Palace. Also, in the Book of Rites (Liji), Royal Regulations, commentary on the桓楹 (huan ying) specifies that this refers to the system for lowering a coffin for feudal lords. Also, jie ying refers to being smooth and polished. Chu Ci, Divination: Would you be smooth and sycophantic, like grease or soft leather, in order to polish the pillars? Sometimes also written in a variant form, or also written as tīng.