You Collection, Middle Volume Radical: Shell (bèi) Pronounced bi Shuowen Jiezi (Explanation of Script and Analysis of Characters): Decoration. Book of Changes (Yijing): Fire below the mountain, decoration. Interpretation (Shiwen): Zheng says: To change. The appearance of decoration. Wang Su says: Having decoration, yellow and white in color. Sequence of Hexagrams (Xu Gua): Decoration is to adorn. Miscellaneous Hexagrams (Za Gua Zhuan): Decoration means having no color. Book of Documents (Shangshu): Decorated like grass and trees. Commentary: Decoration means to adorn. Book of Odes (Shijing): Arriving with a decorated appearance. Pronounced ban Book of Changes (Yijing): Fu says: The ancient character for mottled. The appearance of patterns. Pronounced fen Book of Documents (Shangshu): Use these great decorations. Commentary: Great decoration, both mean great. Book of Odes (Shijing): Large drums and large bells. Commentary: A large drum. Erya (Approaching Elegance): A three-legged tortoise is called a fen. Commentary: A three-legged tortoise is named fen. Pronounced ben Book of Documents (Shangshu): The tiger-brave guards who attend to the garments. Commentary: Tiger-brave guards serve the king with courage and strength. Rites of Zhou (Zhouli): Officials in charge of attending the king and moving in formation. Travel-Brave Officials: In charge of holding shields and spears, flanking the royal carriage as it moves. Mencius: If it is like this, then the master has far surpassed Meng Ben. Zhao Commentary: Ben is a brave warrior. Pronounced fen. Same as indignation (fen). Book of Rites (Liji): Rough, intense, and rising, the sounds of overflowing indignation arise, and the people become firm and resolute. Commentary: Read as indignation. Indignation is the fullness of angry energy. Also means to bubble up. Gongyang Commentary (Gongyang Zhuan): Spilling wine on the ground causing it to bubble. Commentary: To bubble or rise up. Interpretation: Same as boiling (fen). Also a place name. Gongyang Commentary (Gongyang Zhuan): Shu Gong led the army and defeated the Ju army at Benquan. Commentary: Benquan is a place in the state of Lu. Pronounced fen Book of Rites (Liji): A general who brings defeat to the army. Commentary: Read as ruined (fen), meaning to be overturned or defeated. Pronounced lu Benhun, a place name. Gongyang Commentary (Gongyang Zhuan): The Lord of Chu attacked the Rong of Benhun. Interpretation: Old pronunciation is lu. The Zuo Commentary and Gongyang Commentary write it as lu. Pronounced fei A surname. Book of Han (Hanshu): Grand Master Ben He. Book of the Later Han (Houhanshu): Dong Xian’s general Ben Xiu. Commentary: In the former book, Ben He is pronounced fei; today this surname is pronounced ben. Pronounced fan Panyu. The Classic of Mountains and Seas (Shanhaijing) writes it as Benyu. Page 1207, Entry 14