Wei Collection, Upper Volume Radical: Rice (mǐ) 粓 Kangxi Dictionary Stroke Count: 11 Page 907, Entry 25 Collected Rhymes (Jiyun): Pronounced gan. The water remaining after washing rice. Also, according to the Explaining Graphs and Analyzing Characters (Shuowen): In the Zhou dynasty, what was called the water from washing rice (pan) is now called gan. Sometimes written in a variant form (gan).