Hai Collection, Lower Volume Radical: Fish (yú) Shí Kangxi strokes: 21 Page 1475, Entry 36 According to the Expanded Rhymes (Guangyun), Collected Rhymes (Jiyun), and Rhyme Compendium (Yunhui), the pronunciation is shí. According to the Corrected Rhymes (Zhengyun), the pronunciation is shí. A type of fish. It is shaped like a bream (fang), and its meat is fatty and delicious. It can be caught in the Jiangdong region during the fourth month. Sometimes it is also written in a variant form. In the Literary Expositor (Erya), section on Fish, another name for it is dānghù. In the Rhyme Compendium (Yunhui), it is sometimes also written interchangeably as shí.