You Collection, Upper Volume Radical: Speech (yán) 讷 Kangxi strokes: 11 Page 1150, Entry 09 Pronounced nù. Shuowen Jiezi (Shuowen): Difficulty in speaking. Yupian (Yupian): Slow and blunt. Guangyun (Guangyun): Stuttering, not good at speech. Analects of Confucius (Lunyu): A superior person should be cautious in speech and agile in action. Guan Yinzi (Guan Yinzi), Chapter Nine Medicines: Those who can exhaust the eloquence of the world are not those who are glib, but those who are cautious in speech. Also a name of a tree. Bencao Shiming (Bencao Shiming): Aloe, also known as Nehui. In Jiyun (Jiyun), it is sometimes written as a variant form (nà). Records of the Grand Historian (Shiji), Biography of General Li: Li Guang was slow of speech and said little. Book of Han (Hanshu): Written as a variant form (nà). Shigu annotation: The variant form (nà) is the same as the character (nè). In Jiyun (Jiyun), it is also written as a variant form (qū). History of the Former Han (Qianhan), Biography of Cao Can: Not skilled in literary phrasing. Records of the Grand Historian (Shiji): Written as a variant form (qū). In Jiyun (Jiyun), pronounced duó, meaning speech that is not fluent. In Yunhui Xiaobu (Yunhui Xiaobu), used for rhyming, pronounced nuò or yuè, sounds like the character (niè). Tao Te Ching (Daodejing): The greatest skill appears as awkwardness, the best eloquence appears as reticence. Zhengzitong (Zhengzitong): Commonly written as a variant form. Zihuibu (Zihuibu): The large seal script (zhòu) form is written as a variant form.