You Collection, Upper Volume Radical: Speech (yán) Xun Kangxi Strokes: 10 Page 1147, Entry 02 According to the Jade Chapters (Yupian) and the Collected Rhymes (Jiyun), it is pronounced fan (falling tone), which is the same pronunciation as the word for Brahma. It means to talk too much. The Supplement to the Dictionary (Zihuibu) notes that it is written incorrectly as another character, which is wrong.