Chou Collection, Lower Volume Radical: Big (dà) Kangxi strokes: 14 Page 253, Entry 22 Pronounced lian. A vessel for storing incense. Another definition is a mirror box. Book of the Later Han (Hou Hanshu), Biography of Empresses: The Emperor looked at the objects inside the Empress Dowager's mirror box. Nowadays, objects provided for a daughter's wedding are commonly referred to as zhuanglian (dowry). In the Explanation of Simple and Compound Characters (Shuowen), it is written as lian. It is also commonly written as lian, and alternatively written as lian.