Hai Collection, Middle Volume Radical: Bird (niǎo) Character: 鶭 Kangxi Stroke Count: 21 Page 1496, Entry 01 Broad Rhymes (Guangyun): Pronounced fang (rising tone) Collected Rhymes (Jiyun): Pronounced fang (rising tone) Pronounced fang (rising tone) Erya (Erya): Explaining Birds: The fang is the marshal of the marshlands. Guo Commentary: The bird of the marshes resembles a water owl, dark and black in color. It dwells constantly in the marshes and, upon seeing a person, it immediately cries out and refuses to leave. It resembles an official in charge of guarding the grounds, hence its name. Common folk call it the field-protecting bird. Also, Collected Rhymes (Jiyun) and Classified Dictionary (Leipian): Pronounced fang (rising tone). The meaning is the same. In the Explaining Graphs (Shuowen) it is written as a variant form.