You Collection, Upper Volume Radical: Speech (yán) 14 strokes Page 1162, Entry 09 Pronounced lian. Speech that is pleasant and fluent. Also used as a personal name. Vice General Chu Lian and the diviner Qin Lian are mentioned in the Book of Tang (Tangshu). Also, according to the Jade Chapters (Yupian) and the Collected Rimes (Jiyun), pronounced yan (level tone). The meaning is the same.