Hai Collection, Middle Volume
Radical: Bird (niǎo)
Character: Yang
Kangxi stroke count: 24
Page 1503, Entry 10
Comprehensive Rhymes (Guangyun): Pronounced yang
Collected Rhymes (Jiyun): Pronounced yang
Dictionary of Jade (Yupian): Resembles a hawk. Originally written as Yang.
Approaching Elegance (Erya), Explanation of Birds: The Yang bird is the white jue.
Guo Commentary: It resembles a hawk, with white feathers on the tail. Note: Some say it is written as two characters, Yang and Niao, which is an error.
Collected Rhymes (Jiyun): Pronounced ying. A white jue. A term from east of the Yangtze River.
Textual Research:
Dictionary of Jade (Yupian): Resembles a hawk. Originally written as Yang.
Approaching Elegance (Erya), Explanation of Birds: Yang bird is the white jue.
Guo Commentary: Resembles a hawk, with white feathers on the tail.
Note: It is noted that the character is a mistake for the character for wild goose. Guo's commentary does not need to be cited. Upon examining the textual notes of the Tang Stone Classics and the Song dynasty edition of Approaching Elegance (Erya), both use the character Yang. Thus, the two characters Yang and Niao are a miswriting of the character Yang, and it should not be said that it was originally written as Yang. It is now corrected to read: Approaching Elegance (Erya), Explanation of Birds: Yang, the white jue. Guo Commentary: Resembles a hawk, with white feathers on the tail. Note: Some say it is written as two characters, Yang and Niao, which is an error.