You Collection, Lower Volume
Radical: Walk (chuò)
Zhan
Kangxi strokes: 20
Page 1266, Entry 24
Broad Rhymes (Guangyun), Collected Rhymes (Jiyun), and Rhyme Compilation (Yunhui): Pronounced zhan.
Collected Rhymes (Jiyun): Zhunzhan describes the appearance of having difficulty walking and failing to advance. Book of Changes (Yijing), Tun Hexagram: Like a difficult start, like being unable to advance. Songs of the South (Chuci), Lament for the Times (Ai shiming): Stumbling and turning, unable to proceed.
Also, Broad Rhymes (Guangyun): Pronounced nian (rising tone). Collected Rhymes (Jiyun), Rhyme Compilation (Yunhui), and Correct Rhymes (Zhengyun): Pronounced nian (rising tone). To turn, to pursue. Qu Yuan, Encountering Sorrow (Lisao): I turned my path toward the Kunlun Mountains. Commentary: Zhan means to turn. The people of Chu call turning zhan.
Also, Songs of the South (Chuci), Nine Sighs (Jiutan): Wandering that southern path, traveling through the night. Commentary: It means the speaker is exiled and drifting in the south of the Yangtze River.
Also, Broad Rhymes (Guangyun): Pronounced shan (falling tone). Collected Rhymes (Jiyun): Pronounced shan (falling tone). To move. Also, to follow.
Textual research: Songs of the South (Chuci), Nine Admonitions (Jiujian): Stumbling and turning, unable to proceed. We have corrected this to Lament for the Times (Ai shiming) in accordance with the original book.