Hai Collection, Middle Volume Radical: Fish (yú) Character: Xun Kangxi Stroke Count: 23 Page 1478, Entry 08 Guangyun (Dictionary of Sounds and Meanings): Pronounced xun. Jiyun (Compilation of Sounds and Meanings), Yunhui (Collection of Rhymes), Zhengyun (Correct Rhymes): Pronounced xun. Shuo Wen (Explaining Graphs and Analyzing Characters): A type of fish. Records state: When Boya played the zither, the xun fish emerged to listen. Er Ya (Approaching Elegance), Commentary on Interpreting Fish: The xun is a long-nosed fish, weighing up to one thousand jin. History of the Later Han, Biography of Ma Rong: The bream, the bighead carp, the xun, and the flathead. Commentary: The xun has a mouth located beneath the chin, and large specimens measure seven to eight feet in length. Also, according to Guangyun: Pronounced yin. Jiyun: Pronounced yin. Yu Pian (Jade Chapters): A sturgeon.