You Collection, Upper Volume Radical: Speech (yán) Shen; Kangxi stroke count: 13; Page 1159, Entry 02 Pronounced shen Shuowen Jiezi (Explanation of Simple and Compound Characters): To cause words to be spoken. Xu states: To speak first. Guangya (Expanded Elegance): To ask. Guangyun (Broad Rhymes): The speech of many people. Also in Yupian (Jade Chapters): Many or numerous. Book of Odes (Shijing): The wings of the locusts, how numerous they are. Commentary: Numerous. Also the appearance of harmony and gathering. Biography of Zhou Hongzheng (Zhou Hongzheng Zhuan): The younger generation gathering in numbers, not lacking in those to carry on the tradition. History of Yuan (Yuanshi): The disciples following him in great numbers. Also in Jiyun (Collected Rhymes): Pronounced xian. Meaning is the same.