Yin Collection, Lower Volume Radical: Twenty (gǒng) Kangxi stroke count: 9 Page 354, Entry 08 Ancient script. Tang Rhymes (Tangyun): Pronounced yan (third tone). Collected Rhymes (Jiyun): Pronounced yan (third tone). Correct Rhymes (Zhengyun): Pronounced yan (third tone). Erya (Erya): To cover. Commentary: Refers to placing a cover over something. Also, Erya: A solar halo is called a covering cloud. Commentary: A five-colored halo covering the sun. Also, Erya: To be the same. Also, Classified Compilation (Leipian): Yan-zhong is a narrow pass. Zuo Commentary (Zuo Zhuan): Journeyed to the Yan-zhong pass. Also, a vessel with a small opening and a wide middle is called yan. Rites of Zhou (Zhouli): A wide opening produces a short sound; a constricted opening produces a muffled sound. Commentary: Yan means the center is wide. When it is constricted, the sound is muffled and cannot escape. Winter Offices: Artificers Record (Kaogongji): The origin of wide and constricted sounds. Commentary: Because the bell mouth is wide or constricted, the resulting sounds are either sharp or muffled. Spring and Autumn Annals of Mr. Lu (Lushi Chunqiu): The vessel is grand and constricted. Commentary: Grand meaning large, constricted meaning deep, representing the winter cycle of storage. Also, inward-facing. Rites of Zhou, Winter Offices: Artificers Record: A carriage body should be constricted. Commentary: A carriage without leather covering is prone to breaking, so it is made to curve inward. Also, a place name. Masters of Huainan (Huainanzi): Directly to the west is the Yan Prefecture, known as the level earth. Also, a mountain name. Classic of Mountains and Seas (Shanhaijing): In the great wilderness to the west, there is the Mountain of Yan Prefecture. Biography of King Mu, Son of Heaven (Mu Tianzi Zhuan): The Son of Heaven was a guest of the Queen Mother of the West; he recorded his tracks at Mount Yan, which is named the Mountain of the Queen Mother of the West. Commentary: The entrance to the Yan pass. Also, Yanzie, the name of a deity. Classic of Mountains and Seas: In the islands of the Western Sea, there is a deity named Yanzie. Also, Classified Compilation: Pronounced nan. A surname. Also, Tang Rhymes: Pronounced tan. Also means to cover. Also, Collected Rhymes: Pronounced yan (fourth tone). Rites of Zhou, Spring Offices: The muffled sound of yan. Explanation of Texts: Read by Liu Changzong. Textual correction: In Rites of Zhou, Spring Offices, wide sounds are sharp, constricted sounds are muffled. Following the original text, the term sharp has been corrected to the specific reading of the original. In Biography of King Mu, Son of Heaven, the commentary regarding the place the sun reaches has been corrected to refer to the entrance to the Yan pass according to the original text.