Zi Collection, Page Position: Lower. Radical: Knife (dāo). Character: wan. Kangxi Stroke Count: 10. Page 141, Number 16. Tang Rhymes (Tangyun): The fanqie pronunciation is yi plus wan. Collected Rhymes (Jiyun) and Rhyme Assembly (Yunhui): The fanqie pronunciation is wu plus wan. Correct Rhymes (Zhengyun): The fanqie pronunciation is wu plus huan. Pronounced like the character wan. To pare or carve — Explaining Graphs and Analyzing Characters (Shuowen Jiezi). There are caves as if carved by gods, there are crags as if etched by heaven — Poem Harmonizing with Pei Du on the Artificial Mountain (He Pei Du Jiashan Shi). Also used as a rhyming word with the fanqie pronunciation yu plus yun. All say Nüwa first forged and tempered them, melting and binding the primordial breath into true purity. If they were not the handiwork of a divine sage, then who could have carved these hollows and holes? — Poem on the Rocks of Lingxi (Lingxi Shi Shi). Collected Rhymes (Jiyun): Also written in an abbreviated form.