Si Collection, Upper Volume
Radical: Water (shuǐ)
Chan
Kangxi strokes: 21
Page 661, Entry 21
Broad Rhymes (Guangyun) and Collected Rhymes (Jiyun): Pronounced zhan (falling tone). Chan zhuo refers to the sound of water.
Sima Xiangru, Rhapsody on the Shanglin Park (Shanglin fu): The sound of splashing and dripping.
Also, chan zhuo refers to the appearance of fish floating and sinking.
Pan Yue, Rhapsody on Living in Seclusion (Xianju fu): Swimming fish splashing.
Also, Collected Rhymes (Jiyun): Pronounced chan (rising tone). Meaning same as above.
Also, pronounced chan (rising tone). Chan zhuo refers to the appearance of receding water.
Also, the sound of water pouring.
Ma Rong, Rhapsody on the Long Flute (Changdi fu): The hammer drops into the chan hole.
Commentary: Chan hole is where the water pours into the hole.
Also, the fluid of the hands and feet.
Records of the Grand Historian (Shiji), Biography of Physician Cang (Canggong zhuan): To issue and chan water.