Si Collection, Upper Volume Radical: Water (shuǐ) Entry: Jian Kangxi strokes: 19 Page 657, Entry 01 Pronounced jian. The appearance of water flowing rapidly. From a poem by Shen Yue: Emerging from the river mouth, the water flows rapidly. Also, pronounced jian. Water being splashed or sprayed due to an impact. Commonly written as jian. From the Records of the Grand Historian (Shiji), Biography of Lin Xiangru: Xiangru requested to splash the King with blood from his neck. Also, pronounced zan. Equivalent to the character meaning water droplets splashing or scattering. Also, pronounced jian. To impact or spray. In the Collection of Rhymes (Jiyun), it is sometimes written as the character for shallow. Also written in a variant form. Commonly written as the character for sharpening stone.