Chou Collection, Lower Volume Radical: Woman (nǚ) Character: Yan Kangxi Stroke Count: 9 Page 261, Entry 13 Guangyun: Pronounced yan. Jiyun and Yunhui: Pronounced yan. Charming, beautiful, excellent. Yangzi: Dialect (Fangyan) states that west of the pass, to be good is called yan. Han Yu, Preface to Sending Li Yuan Back to Pangu Valley (Song Li Yuan Gui Pangu Xu): Competing in beauty to seek favor. Shiming: Yan means to polish. When one is refined in the management of affairs, there will be no errors or absurdity. Spring and Autumn of Wu and Yue (Wuyue Chunqiu): The art of cultivating and managing fields. Zhengzitong: The Shuo Wen Jie Zi offers five explanations for the character yan, of which only skilled and intelligent are close to the truth. Other definitions such as being unwilling to examine matters, not encroaching, or being peaceful are not the original meanings.