Hai Collection, Middle Volume Radical: Bird (niǎo) Character: Yan Kangxi stroke count: 13 Page 1482, Entry 01 Supplement to the Collection of Characters (Zihui bu): Identical to the character Yan. Broad Rimes (Guangyun): Refers to the goose known as cang-yan. Annotation by Cao Xian: The character Yan is identical to the character Yan.