Hai Collection, Lower Volume Radical: Fish (yú) Entry: Lǐ Kangxi strokes: 24 Page 1479, Entry 01 Tang Rhymes (Tangyun): Pronounced lǐ. Collected Rhymes (Jiyun), Rhymes Compilation (Yunhui): Pronounced lǐ. Explanation of Writing (Shuowen): A type of large fish. Approaching Elegance (Erya), Explaining Fish: Lǐ. Annotation: Also known as tong (a type of snakehead fish). Book of Odes (Shijing), Minor Odes: Fish swim into the basket, bream and snakehead. Correction of Characters (Zhengzitong): Today referred to as the black fish. Also written as the variant form (lǐ). Compendium of Materia Medica (Bencao): The lǐ fish. Another name is the tong fish, native to the Nine Rivers. Annotation: The character lǐ is now used for all such instances.