Si Collection, Lower Volume Radical: Dog (quǎn) 14 strokes Page 716, Entry 19 According to the Extensive Rhymes (Guangyun), pronounced yuan. According to the Collected Rhymes (Jiyun) and the Rhyme Compendium (Yunhui), pronounced yuan. The sound is yuan. According to the Jade Chapters (Yupian), it is the vulgar form of the character for ape. In the Strategies of the Warring States (Zhanguo Ce), it is written: when apes and macaques are in trees or on water, they are not as agile as fish and turtles.