You Collection, Lower Volume Radical: Wine (yǒu) Kangxi Strokes: 16 Page 1285, Entry 25 Collected Rimes (Jiyun), Rime Assemblies (Yunhui), and Orthodox Rimes (Zhengyun): Pronounced tan (rising tone). Explaining Graphs and Analyzing Characters (Shuowen): A form of meat preserve made with blood. Originally written with a different character, now written as tan. Broad Refinements (Boya): Tan means a fermented sauce. Book of Odes (Shijing), Greater Odes (Daya): Used as an offering of meat sauce. Commentary: Made by using meat to create a preserve, which is characterized by having abundant juices, hence the name tan. According to the commentary by Zhu, tan is pronounced with an even tone, as tan. Rites of Zhou (Zhouli), Offices of Heaven (Tianguan), Officer of Preserves (Hairen): Refers to a type of meat sauce. Commentary: Tan sauce is a meat-based sauce. Jade Chapters (Yupian): Also means cruel, or sour. Collected Rimes (Jiyun): Sometimes also written in a variant form.