Hai Collection, Middle Volume Radical: Fish (yú) Entry: Bian Kangxi strokes: 20 Page 1474, Entry 07 Guangyun (Broad Rhymes), Jiyun (Collected Rhymes), and Yunhui (Collection of Rhymes) all record the pronunciation as bian. Shuowen (Explaining Graphs): A type of fish. Yupian (Jade Chapters): The bream fish. Classic of Mountains and Seas (Shanhaijing): The large bream lives in the sea. Annotation: Bian is the bream.