Shen Collection, Upper Volume Radical: Grass (cǎo) 萏 Kangxi stroke count: 14 Page 1041, Entry 11 Pronounced dan (dipping tone). Ya (bóyǎ): Handan, refers to the lotus flower. See the note under the character han. Also, Rhyme Collection (yùnhuì): The appearance of a flowering blossom. Du Fu, Rhapsody on the Morning Offering at the Great Ancestral Temple (Cháoxiǎng tàimiào fù): Clouds like lotus blossoms spread out like a canopy. Five Classics Script (wǔjīng wénzì): The Explaining Graphs (shuōwén) writes it as a variant, the Commentary on the Book of Odes (shī shū) also writes it as a variant, and the Collected Rhymes (jíyùn) also writes it as a variant.