Si Collection, Lower Volume Radical: Dog (quǎn) 11 strokes Page 712, Entry 05 According to the Extensive Rhymes (Guangyun), pronounced yan. According to the Collected Rhymes (Jiyun), pronounced yan. According to the Jade Chapters (Yupian), the name of a beast. According to the Extensive Rhymes (Guangyun), man-yan is a large beast, eight feet long. According to the Collected Rhymes (Jiyun), it resembles a wild cat but is longer; sometimes written in a variant form (yan). Records of the Grand Historian (Shiji), Biography of Sima Xiangru: qiong-qi and man-yan. Yang Xiong, Rhapsody on the Imperial Hunt (Jiaolie Fu): severing the giant yan. Also, according to the Jade Chapters (Yupian), pronounced chan. According to the Collected Rhymes (Jiyun), pronounced chan. Also, according to the Extensive Rhymes (Guangyun), pronounced yan. According to the Collected Rhymes (Jiyun), pronounced yan. The meaning is the same.