Chou Collection, Upper Volume Radical: Mouth (kǒu) Character: Dan Kangxi Stroke Count: 11 Page 196, Entry 04 Pronounced dan (falling tone). Shuowen Jiezi (Explanation of Simple and Compound Characters): To eat. Guangyun (Broad Rhymes): To eat. Discourses of the States (Jinyu): The lord Meng fed me. Strategies of the Warring States (Zhanguoce): To provide food to eat until the mouth is full. Han Feizi: Confucius first ate millet, and then ate a peach. Song Yu: Rhapsody on the Wind (Feng Fu): To gnaw and chew. Also used to describe luring someone with profit. Records of the Grand Historian (Shiji): Emperor Gao Chronicle: He sent Li Sheng and Lu Jia to persuade the Qin general, luring him with profit. Also pronounced dan (falling tone). Same as the character for eat (dan).