Xu Collection, Middle Volume. Radical: Leather (gé). Character: Běng. Kangxi strokes: 17. Page 1388, Entry 36. According to the Sound of Rhymes (Jiyun), it is pronounced bǒng. It is the same as the character bǒng. In the Zuo Tradition (Zuozhuan), the second year of Duke Huan: The algae-patterned sash and the scabbard decorations. The commentary states: The bing is the decoration at the upper end of the sword scabbard. The běng is the decoration at the lower end. The Explanation of the Text (Shiwen) says: Pronounced bǒng. Textual Research: In the Zuo Tradition (Zuozhuan), the second year of Duke Huan, it reads algae-patterned sash and bǐng-běng. The commentary states: The bǐng is the decoration at the upper end of the sword scabbard, and běng is the decoration at the lower end. We have corrected the characters bǐng-bǐng in the original text to read bǐng-běng.