You Collection, Upper Volume Radical: Speech (yán) Entry: Sheng Kangxi strokes: 20 Page 1182, Entry 13 Guangyun: Pronounced sheng. Jiyun, Yunhui, and Zhengyun: Pronounced sheng. Guangyun: To praise or commend; also to eulogize or recommend. Also refers to simple and honest speech. Zihuazi: Asking about Service (Wen shi pian): The appearance of being sheng sheng is as if one were about to become a child. Also used as a personal name. Xisheng, found in the History of Song (Songshi): Genealogical Tables of the Imperial Clan. Also, Jiyun: Interchanged with sheng. Zuo Commentary (Zuozhuan): 14th year of Duke Zhuang: Because of the affair regarding the land of Shen, the Marquis of Ai of Cai used words of praise for Lady Xi to inform the Viscount of Chu. Commentary: Means to praise. Sub-commentary: In the dictionaries, the character sheng is written as sheng, derived from the Speech radical, defined as praise.