Si Collection, Lower Volume Radical: Dog (quǎn) Character: Xǔn Kangxi stroke count: 8 Page 707, Entry 19 Pronounced yǔn Pronounced yǔn Pronounced yǔn Yu Pian (Book of Changes in Pronunciation and Meaning): Xiǎnyǔn. Jiyun (Collection of Rhymes): Xiǎnyǔn, a variant name for the Xiongnu. Book of Odes (Shijing), Minor Odes of the Kingdom: The Xiǎnyǔn are very urgent. Also: Briefly attack the Xiǎnyǔn. Records of the Grand Historian (Shiji), Account of the Xiongnu: Before the eras of Tang and Yu, there were the Shanrong, the Xiǎnyǔn, and the Xunyu.