Hai Collection, Lower Volume Radical: Fish (yú) Character: 鯇 Kangxi strokes: 18 Page 1471, Entry 01 Broad Rhymes (Guangyun) and Collected Rhymes (Jiyun): Pronounced huan (falling tone), sounds like han (falling tone). Explanation of Graphs (Shuowen): A name for a type of fish. Literary Expositor (Erya), Chapter on Explaining Fishes: Recorded as huan. Commentary: This refers to the present-day grass carp; it resembles a trout but is larger in size. Note: In the Literary Expositor (Erya), the characters for snakehead fish and grass carp are listed separately; the grass carp is not used to define the snakehead fish. The sub-commentary claims that the snakehead fish is also known as the grass carp, which is incorrect. Compendium of Materia Medica (Bencao): The grass carp resembles a common carp and lives in rivers and lakes; its gallbladder is extremely bitter and can be used to treat throat obstructions. Categorized Chapters (Leipian): Also written in variant forms as huan or zeng. Also, Broad Rhymes (Guangyun): Pronounced hun (falling tone), and Collected Rhymes (Jiyun): Pronounced hun (rising tone), sounds like hun (falling tone). Also, Collected Rhymes (Jiyun): Pronounced huan (falling tone), sounds like huan (falling tone). Also pronounced huan (falling tone), sounds like huan (falling tone). The above pronunciations and meanings are the same.