Mao Collection, Middle Volume Radical: Hand (shǒu) Entry: ban Kangxi strokes: 16 Page 456, Entry 08 Compendium of Phonology (Haipian): Pronunciation and meaning are the same. According to the Rhyme Dictionary (Jiyun), it is written as fan, pronounced fan (falling tone). Adding the hand radical is redundant. Refer to the annotations for that character for mutual comparison.