Hai Collection, Middle Volume Radical: Fish (yú) Character: Zha Kangxi strokes: 18 Page 1470, Entry 21 Broad Rhymes (Guangyun), Collected Rhymes (Jiyun): Pronounced zha (rising tone). Explaining Graphs and Analyzing Characters (Shuowen): Originally written as a variant form, referring to salted and stored fish. In the south, it is called this; in the north, it is called that.