You Collection, Middle Volume Radical: Cowrie (bèi) Zan Kangxi strokes: 15 Page 1209, Entry 13 Guangyun (Broad Rhymes), Jiyun (Combined Rhymes), and Yunhui (Collection of Rhymes): Pronounced zan (falling tone). Wujing Wenzi (Text of the Five Classics): Zan, passed down through the classics, is written in the simplified clerical script as zan.