You Collection, Upper Volume Radical: Speech (yán) Ming Kangxi stroke count: 13 Page 1159, Entry 15 Pronounced ming (falling tone). In the Extensive Rhymes (Guangyun) and Collected Rhymes (Jiyun) and Rhyme Collection (Yunhui) it is pronounced ming (falling tone). In the Correct Rhymes (Zhengyun) it is pronounced ming (falling tone). According to the Classified Chapters (Leipian), it refers to naming various things. According to the Extensive Rhymes (Guangyun), it means to name an object. According to the Augmented Rhymes (Zengyun), it means to distinguish the names of things. In the History of Tang (Tangshu), Biography of Yu Zhining: In the past, Hongjing compiled the Classic of Divine Husbandman (Shennong Jing) and combined it with the Miscellaneous Records (Bielu) to annotate and name them. According to the Extensive Rhymes (Guangyun), it is sometimes written as the single character ming (name).