Zi Collection, Page Position: Lower. Radical: Woman (nǚ). Page 258, Entry 09. According to the Comprehensive Collection of Characters (Zihui), it is pronounced zhuan. The Dialects (Fangyan) by Yang Xiong states that bao-mian means to be paired or to form a couple. It is also pronounced mian. This character is the same as the character for childbirth (mian).