You Collection, Upper Volume Radical: Speech (yán) Kangxi stroke count: 19 Page 1182, Entry 02 Pronounced tan. Great, exaggerated, evident. Book of Rites by Dai the Elder (Da Dai Liji): One who cultivates his profession and resides long therein becomes great. Annotation: Refers to being at ease and indulgent. Rhapsody on Whistling (Xiao Fu) by Cheng Gong Sui: Mixed and extensive, like clustering clouds. Annotation: Tan signifies to be evident. Mixed and extensive means continuous. Also a name of a state. Spring and Autumn Annals (Chunqiu), tenth year of Duke Zhuang: The Viscount of Tan fled to Ju. Du Yu's annotation: The state of Tan was located southwest of Pingling County in Jinan. Also a surname. Descendant of the Viscount of Tan. Biography of Hermits (Yimin Zhuan) in the History of the Later Han (Hou Hanshu): Tan Xian of Taiyuan. Also, according to the Correct Rhymes (Zhengyun), identical to talk. Records of the Three Kingdoms (Weizhi): This is the common talk of a pedant. Book of Zhuangzi (Zhuangzi): Master, why do you not speak about me to the King? Also used interchangeably with tan. Book of Odes (Shijing), Greater Odes (Daya): Truly great and truly grand. Zheng Xuan's commentary: Tan is sometimes written as tan. Pronounced tan (rising tone). Also means great. Also rhymes with tang. Emergency Handbook (Jijiuzhang): Cao Fugui, Yin Li Sang. Xiao Pengzu, Qu Zong Tan. In the Origin of Chinese Characters (Shuowen), originally written as speech.