Xu Collection, Middle Volume Radical: Leather (gé) 靼 Kangxi strokes: 14 Page 1386, Entry 20 Classical Citations: Broad Rhymes (Guangyun) and Collected Rhymes (Jiyun) state: Pronounced dang (level tone), same pronunciation as dan. Explained in Explaining Graphs and Analyzing Characters (Shuowen jiezi) as soft leather. Additionally, Tang Rhymes (Tangyun) states: Pronounced zhi (rising tone); Collected Rhymes (Jiyun) states: Pronounced zhi (entering tone), same pronunciation as zhe. Also, Collected Rhymes (Jiyun) states: Pronounced tang (rising tone), same pronunciation as tan. The meaning is the same.