Hai Collection, Middle Volume Radical: Fish (yú) Character: 鲫 Kangxi Stroke Count: 20 Page 1474, Entry 06 Broad Rhymes (Guangyun), Collected Rhymes (Jiyun), Rhyme Meetings (Yunhui), Correct Rhymes (Zhengyun): Pronounced ji. Same as the character for cuttlefish. The name of a fish. Compendium of Materia Medica (Bencao): It is shaped like a carp. It is black in color with a short body, a large abdomen, and a raised spine. Du Fu poetry: Fresh crucian carp, thin as silver threads, prepared as sashimi. Also, Broad Rhymes (Guangyun): Pronounced ji. Collected Rhymes (Jiyun): Pronounced ji. The meaning is the same. Also, Collected Rhymes (Jiyun): Pronounced zei. Explaining Graphs and Analyzing Characters (Shuowen): For the character meaning cuttlefish, a variant is sometimes written using the character for immediately (ji) to form 鲫. See the detailed note under the entry for cuttlefish.