Yin Collection, Middle Volume
Radical: Mountain (shān)
Entry: Zhan
Kangxi stroke count: 14
Page 318, Entry 29
Broad Rhymes (Guangyun), Collected Rhymes (Jiyun), Dictionary of Rhymes (Yunhui), and Correct Rhymes (Zhengyun): Pronounced chan (falling tone). The appearance of a mountain being high, lofty, and precipitous.
Qiu Chi, Poem of Yupu Pool (Yupu tan shi): The mountain peaks are precipitous and uniquely shaped.
Liu Jun, Poem on Beginning to Build a Mountain Dwelling (Shi ying shan ju shi): Opening the window to gaze upon the precipice.
Also Broad Rhymes (Guangyun) and Collected Rhymes (Jiyun): Pronounced chan (level tone). Same as the character chan. Zhan yan refers to a mountain with a sharp and pointed appearance.
Sima Xiangru, Rhapsody on the Shanglin Park (Shanglin fu): Precipitous and jagged cliffs.
Collected Rhymes (Jiyun): Also written as the variant form zhan.