You Collection, Upper Volume Radical: Speech (yán) 16 Kangxi strokes Page 1169, Entry 30 Pronounced xuan. Same as the character meaning to deceive or to forget. Detailed explanation can be found under the entry for the character meaning to deceive. Also, according to the Guangyun dictionary, it refers to clamor. According to the Zhengzi Tong dictionary, it refers to noise. As mentioned in the Biography of Chao Cuo in the Records of the Grand Historian (Shiji), the feudal lords were clamorous. In the Biography of Yao Qi in the History of the Later Han (Hou Hanshu), it is said that shouts and cries filled the roads. In the Biography of Empress Yang of Emperor Hui in the Book of Jin (Jinshu), it is written that the common people were clamorous and alarmed. According to the Yunhui dictionary, it is the same as the character for noise. According to the Zhengzi Tong dictionary, it is interchangeable with the characters representing clamor, wailing, or loud noise. It should correctly be written with the speech radical. Also pronounced xuan (rising tone). It also refers to forgetting. In the You-tong Fu by Ban Gu, it describes the state of forgetting oneself and casting off one's physical form. The character for wailing was originally composed of the mouth radical and the radical for work.