Si Collection, Upper Volume Radical: Water (shuǐ) Entry: lan Kangxi stroke count: 18 Page 646, Entry 22 From the Tang Rhymes (Tangyun) and Collected Rhymes (Jiyun), the pronunciation is lan (rising tone). It refers to the process of pickling fruit in salt. Another interpretation refers to fruit juice. It is also used to describe a specific type of crack pattern on a tortoise shell used for divination. The Classic of Tortoise Divination (Guijing) states that lan resembles the appearance of water droplets flowing downward. According to Explanations of the Six Writings (Liushugu), the character lan (overflowing) is sometimes written as this character.