Xu Collection, Lower Volume
Radical: Leaf (yè)
Ban
Kangxi stroke count: 13
Page 1401, Entry 01
Broad Rhymes (Guangyun), Collection Rhymes (Jiyun), Rhyme Compendium (Yunhui), Correct Rhymes (Zhengyun): Pronounced fen.
Broad Rhymes (Guangyun): Fish with large heads. Also the appearance of a multitude.
Book of Odes (Shijing), Lesser Odes (Xiao Ya): Fish are among the water weeds, with their large heads.
Also Tang Rhymes (Tangyun): Pronounced ban. Collection Rhymes (Jiyun), Rhyme Compendium (Yunhui), Correct Rhymes (Zhengyun): Pronounced ban.
Broad Rhymes (Guangyun): To distribute, to bestow.
Book of Rites (Liji), Hall of Distinction (Mingtang Wei): Distribute weights and measures, and the world will be greatly submissive.
Commentary: Ban is to be read as ban.
Rites of Zhou (Zhouli), Officers of Heaven (Tianguan), Grand Administrator (Dazai): Fei ban.
Commentary: Fei means to divide. Ban is to be read as the ban in distribution, meaning to bestow.
Also Explaining Graphs (Shuowen): Hair at the temples.
Correct Rhymes (Zhengyun): The two sides of the forehead are called ban.
Mencius (Mengzi): Those with gray hair.
Commentary: Ban is the same as ban. It refers to hair that is half white and mottled.
Also: To divide.
Book of Documents (Shujing), Announcement of Luo (Luo Gao): You are but a youth, yet you share my lack of leisure.
Commentary: I am engaged in government, often appearing as though I have no leisure. You, being a youth, should take and divide my lack of leisure and carry it out.
Explication of Texts (Shiwen): Ban is pronounced ban.
Also pronounced fu (rising tone).
Also Explaining Graphs (Shuowen): Commonly written as a variant form (fen).
Book of Rites (Liji), Royal Regulations (Wangzhi): Famous mountains and great lakes are not to be divided.
Explication of Texts (Shiwen): Fen is read as ban, meaning to impose or levy.
Also: A bird name.
Master Yang's Dialects (Fangyan): The hoopoe; from the pass eastward, some call it the daiban.
Also Master Yang's Dialects (Fangyan): Puban, to search. In eastern Qi it is called puban, similar to the terms dousou used in Qin and Jin.
Also anciently interchangeable with the xian rhyme, pronounced bian.
Su Shi, Poem on the Cleared Mud Inkstone: The new inkstone from Chang'an is as hard as stone, I did not wait for the letter to arrive before permitting the distribution.
