Hai Collection, Lower Volume Radical: Fish (yú) Entry:鱧 Kangxi strokes: 24 Page 1479, Entry 14 Tang Dynasty Rhyme Dictionary (Tangyun) states it is pronounced li (rising tone). Collected Rhymes (Jiyun) and Rhyme Collection (Yunhui) state it is pronounced li (falling tone). Shuowen Jiezi states it is a species of catfish. Erya (Erya), Explanation of Fishes, states: The li. Commentary states: It is the tong fish. Book of Odes (Shijing), Lesser Odes of the Kingdom (Xiaoya), states: The fish enter the wicker baskets, the bream and the snakehead. Zhengzitong states: It is the current black fish. Also written in a variant form as li (rising tone). Compendium of Materia Medica (Bencao) states: The li fish. One name is the tong fish, which originates in the Jiujiang region. Commentary states: The character li is now commonly written as the character li (rising tone).