Hai Collection, Middle Volume Radical: Fish (yú) Character: Gun Kangxi strokes: 16 Page 1468, Entry 07 Guangyun, Jiyun, and Zhengyun (Dictionary of standard rhymes) state it is pronounced gun. Shuowen Jiezi (Explanation of simple and compound characters) states it is a type of fish. It is also the same as the character gun (a legendary figure). Discourses of the States (Guoyu), Wu Discourses: Now the King has already altered the achievements of Gun and Yu. Commentary: Gun is the same as the character gun.