Si Collection, Upper Volume Radical: Water (shuǐ) 瀚 Kangxi Strokes: 20 Page 659, Entry 48 Pronounced hàn. Name of the Northern Sea. In the Records of the Grand Historian (Shiji), it is written as hánhǎi. In the Biography of Huo Piaoji, it is written as climbing the hánhǎi. Also written as huàn. Also, hùnhàn, referring to the appearance of water. Also, hàohàn, referring to something vast and extensive. In The Literary Mind and the Carving of Dragons (Wenxin Diaolong), Chapter on Categories of Events, it is described as vast and extensive.