Xu Collection, Lower Volume Radical: Leaf (yè) 颁 Kangxi strokes: 13 Page 1401, Entry 08 Broad Rhymes (Guangyun), Collected Rhymes (Jiyun), Rhyme Meetings (Yunhui), Correct Rhymes (Zhengyun): Pronounced fen. Broad Rhymes (Guangyun): Appearance of fish with large heads. Also describes a multitude. Book of Odes (Shijing), Lesser Odes of the Kingdom: The fish are among the pondweed, with their large heads. Tang Rhymes (Tangyun): Pronounced ban. Collected Rhymes (Jiyun), Rhyme Meetings (Yunhui), Correct Rhymes (Zhengyun): Pronounced ban. Broad Rhymes (Guangyun): To distribute, to bestow. Book of Rites (Liji), Hall of Distinction (Mingtangwei): Distribute measurements and weights, and the world will be greatly submissive. Commentary: Ban is to be read as ban. Rites of Zhou (Zhouli), Offices of Heaven, Grand Administrator: Distributing shares. Commentary: Fei means to divide. Ban is read as the ban in distribution, meaning to bestow. Analytical Dictionary of Characters (Shuowen): Hair on the temples. Correct Rhymes (Zhengyun): The sides of the forehead are called ban. Mencius (Mengzi): Those with gray hair (ban). Commentary: Ban is the same as ban. It refers to heads that are half white and variegated. Also means to divide. Book of Documents (Shangshu), Announcement concerning Luo (Luogao): It is you, the young child, who should share in my lack of leisure. Commentary: I govern, yet I am constantly as if I have no leisure. You, being a young person, should share in my lack of leisure and carry it out. Explanation of Text: Ban is pronounced ban. Also pronounced fen. Analytical Dictionary of Characters (Shuowen): Often written in a variant form (fen). Book of Rites (Liji), Royal Regulations (Wangzhi): Famous mountains and great marshes are not to be distributed (fen). Explanation of Text: Fen is read as ban, meaning to assign. Also the name of a bird. Master Yang's Dialects (Fangyan): The hoopoe; east of the pass it is sometimes called the tai-ban. Master Yang's Dialects (Fangyan): Pu-ban means to seek. In East Qi, it is called pu-ban, which is similar to the words dou-sou in the Qin and Jin regions. Also anciently shares the xian rhyme, pronounced bian. Su Shi, Poem on the Clearing Mud Inkstone: The new inkstone from Chang'an is as hard as bronze; without waiting for a letter to arrive, I am granted this gift (ban).