Si Collection, Upper Volume
Radical: Water (shuǐ)
Entry: Han
Kangxi Strokes: 11
Page 623, Entry 24
In Broad Rhymes (Guangyun) and Collected Rhymes (Jiyun), pronounced han (falling tone).
In Jade Chapter (Yupian), the mixing of water and mud.
Also in Collected Rhymes (Jiyun), pronounced yan (falling tone). Same as gan. See the note on the character gan.
Also in Collected Rhymes (Jiyun), pronounced han (rising tone).
In Master Yang’s Regional Dialects (Fangyan), to sink. Sometimes written as xian, gan, or lang.
In Six Scripts Origins (Liushu Gu), separately written as han.
In Wang Zinian’s Record of Forgotten Matters (Shiyiji), describing the vast heavens as blue and expansive.
Also a place name. In Correct Meaning Thoroughly Investigated (Zhengzitong), Hanguang was an ancient district belonging to Ying Prefecture. Today, above the river mouth at Lian Prefecture, there is Hanguang Mouth, belonging to Yingde District of Shao Prefecture.