Si Collection, Upper Volume Radical: Water (shuǐ) Mang Kangxi Stroke Count: 15 Page 647, Entry 03 Pronounced mang (rising tone) according to Expanded Rhymes (Guangyun), Collected Rhymes (Jiyun), and Rhyme Compendium (Yunhui). Pronounced mang (falling-rising tone) according to Correct Rhymes (Zhengyun). According to Jade Chapters (Yupian), it means flat, vast, and a wilderness. In the Upper Forest Rhapsody (Shanglin Fu) by Sima Xiangru: passing over the vastness. It also describes water that is broad and distant. In the Gaotang Rhapsody (Gaotang Fu) by Song Yu: wading through the vast and expansive, galloping through the abundant. It also describes the phrase vast and indistinct, appearing as the unclear appearance of dawn light. In a poem by Xie Tiao: the morning light is again vast and indistinct. Also pronounced mang (falling tone) according to Expanded Rhymes (Guangyun), Collected Rhymes (Jiyun), and Correct Rhymes (Zhengyun). The meaning is the same.