Hai Collection, Lower Volume
Radical: Deer (lù)
Character: Yan
Kangxi Stroke Count: 20
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Guangyun (Expanded Rhymes): Pronounced yan (rising tone).
Jiyun (Collected Rhymes): Pronounced yan (rising tone).
Yunhui (Collection of Rhymes): Pronounced yan (rising tone).
Shuowen (Explaining Graphs and Analyzing Characters): A mountain goat that is large with slender horns.
Erya (Approaching Elegance), Explaining Beasts: Among bears and tigers, their young are called dogs; the one that is extremely strong is the yan.
Yang Xiong, Shudu Fu (Rhapsody on the Capital of Shu): As for beasts, there are the yan, sheep, and wild elk.
Also, Guangyun (Expanded Rhymes): Pronounced xian.
Also, Jiyun (Collected Rhymes): Pronounced xian.
Also, Jiyun (Collected Rhymes): Pronounced qian. The meaning is the same.
Also, Leipian (Classified Chapters): Pronounced qian. A goat that is six feet tall is called a qian. Sometimes written in a variant form using the radical for deer.