Chen Collection, Middle Volume Radical: Tree (mù) Kangxi strokes: 12 Page 535, Entry 07 Guangyun (Dictionary of Sounds and Meanings): Pronounced fen. Shuowen Jiezi (Explaining Simple and Analyzing Compound Characters): The ridgepole of a house with multiple roofs. Xu Shen comments: A double-roofed back with heavy beams. Ban Gu, Western Capital Rhapsody (Xidu fu): Arrayed ridgepoles spread like wings. Also: Rainbows and clouds form a belt around the ridgebeams and lintels. Also, hemp thread is called fen. Rites of Zhou (Zhouli), Spring Officials, Duties of the Carriage Master: A plain carriage with a hemp covering. Commentary: Fen refers to hemp fabric. Also, from Shuowen Jiezi: Forest trees in a tangled or interlocking state. Xu Xuan comments: Because there are many trees, they grow upward. Also, chaos or disorder. Book of Documents (Shangshu), Counsels of Lu: Confused and disordered. Zuo Tradition (Zuozhuan), Fourth Year of Duke Yin: Like trying to manage silk threads and making them tangled. Also, Guangyun (Dictionary of Sounds and Meanings): Pronounced fen. Used in personal names. There was a Bo Fen in the State of Chu.