Xu Collection, Lower Volume Radical: Page (yè) Page 1405, Entry 04 Jade Chapters (Yupian) says pronounced cheng. It means red. Originally written as cheng. Book of Odes (Shijing), Zhou South section: The tail of the bream is red. The Commentary says: Cheng means red. Explaining Graphs and Analyzing Characters (Shuowen Jiezi) writes it as a variant. Also written as cheng.