Wu Collection, Upper Volume Radical: Jade (yù) Dang Kangxi strokes: 17 Page 741, Entry 35 In Guangyun (Guangyun), pronounced dang (rising tone). In Jiyun (Jiyun) and Yunhui (Yunhui), pronounced dang (rising tone). In Zhengyun (Zhengyun), pronounced dang (falling-rising tone). According to Shuo Wen (Shuowen), it is a beautiful type of metal, similar in color to jade. In Er Ya (Erya), section on implements, it states that gold is referred to as dang. Guo Pu commentary: Another name for gold. Book of Odes (Shijing), Xiaoya section: For the scabbard adornments, the feudal lords use dang for the upper fitting and qiu for the lower fitting. In Jiyun (Jiyun), it is also written as the variant form chang.