Hai Collection, Middle Volume
Radical: Fish (yú)
Character: Yong
Kangxi Stroke Count: 22
Page 1477, Entry 24
Tang Rhymes (Tangyun): Pronounced yong. Collected Rhymes (Jiyun) and Collection of Rhymes (Yunhui): Pronounced yong.
Shuowen Jiezi (Shuowen): A type of fish.
Commentary on Plants, Trees, Insects, and Fish (Caomu Chongyu Shu) by Lu Ji: The xu fish is also called the yong fish.
Records of the Grand Historian (Shiji), Biography of Sima Xiangru: The yu, yong, qian, and tuo fish.
Annotation: Guo Pu states that the yong fish resembles the silver carp but is black.
Correction of Standard Characters (Zhengzitong): It resembles the silver carp, having a large head and fine scales, with a bone beside the eye.
Categorized Dictionary (Leipian): Sometimes written as yong.
Correction of Standard Characters (Zhengzitong): A saltwater fish, the flesh of which tastes like pork. Also called yong.
Classic of Mountains and Seas (Shanhaijing): In the Shi River there are many yong-yong fish, which resemble plow oxen in appearance and make a sound like a pig.
Guangyun and Collected Rhymes (Jiyun): Pronounced yong. The meaning is the same.