You Collection, Upper Volume Radical: Speech (yán) E Kangxi stroke count: 16 Page 1170, Entry 05 Pronounced e. Guangyun (Dictionary of Sounds and Meanings): Speak. Yupian (Jade Chapters): Honest and direct words. Records of the Grand Historian (Shiji), Biography of Lord Shang: A thousand people saying yes is not as good as one scholar speaking with direct honesty. School Sayings (Jia Yu): Tang and Wu prospered because of their direct, honest speech. Also, Guangyun (Dictionary of Sounds and Meanings): Jian-e, speaking directly. Book of the Later Han (Hou Hanshu), Biography of Confucian Scholars: Your servant lacks the integrity of direct speech and instead offers wild and ignorant words. Also, Rhyme Gathering (Yunhui): Often written as the variant form e. Book of Rites (Liji), Record on Education (Fangji), Zheng annotation: Children should be harmonious and agreeable toward their parents, not using direct, argumentative speech. Explanation of Names (Shiming): The character e was originally also written as the variant form e. Also, commonly written as the variant form e. Book of the Former Han (Qian Hanshu), Biography of Wei Xian: Direct, honest speech from the gray-haired elders. Shigu annotation: Refers to direct speech. Categorized Chapters (Leipian): Sometimes also written as the variant form lie.