Si Collection, Upper Volume Radical: Water (shuǐ) 泳 Kangxi stroke count: 9 Page 619, Entry 02 Tangyun, Jiyun, Yunhui, and Zhengyun state it is pronounced yǒng. Shuowen Jiezi states it means to swim or travel underwater. Erya, Explanation of Words states it means to swim. Book of Odes (Shijing), Beifeng states to swim it and to roam it. Also, according to the Yunbu, it is rhymed as huàng, pronounced wàng. Book of Odes (Shijing), Zhounan states the breadth of the Han River is such that one cannot swim across it. The length of the Yangtze River is such that one cannot cross it on a raft.