Wei Collection, Middle Volume Radical: Silk (mì) 縍 Kangxi stroke count: 16 Page 933, Entry 19 Pronounced bang. Pronounced bang. Pronounced bang. The character bang is sometimes written as the variant form bang. To mend the edges of shoes. Also pronounced bang (falling tone). According to the Collection of Categorized Characters (Leipian), it is a custom in the Wu region to refer to silk wadding as bang.