Chou Collection, Lower Volume Radical: Woman (nü) Kangxi Strokes: 12 Page 265, Entry 30 Broad Rhymes (Guangyun): Pronounced tang (falling tone). Collected Rhymes (Jiyun): Pronounced tang (falling tone). Explaining Graphs (Shuowen): To be unrestrained. Another definition is to engage in licentious play. Also, in the History of the Former Han Dynasty (Qianhan Shu), Southern and Western Regions account: People refer to themselves as tang. Yang Xiong's Regional Dialects (Fangyan): The people of Ba and Pu refer to themselves as a-tang. Also, in Collected Rhymes (Jiyun): Pronounced yang (rising tone). A woman's name. Also written in a variant form (yang). Commonly written as (dang) and (dang).