Wu Collection, Middle Volume Radical: Vessel (mǐn) 盤 (pan) Kangxi Strokes: 15 Page 796, Entry 01 Ancient form: 鎜 Pronounced pan (level tone) Shuowen Jiezi (Shuowen): A vessel for holding items. Zhengzitong: A container for holding objects. May be made of wood, pewter, or copper. Zuo Zhuan (Zuo Zhuan), twenty-third year of Duke Xi: Offered a dish of food and placed a jade disc there. Records of the Grand Historian (Shiji), Biography of Jesters: Cups and plates in disarray. Lüshi Chunqiu: Achievements inscribed on plates and basins. Also, a vessel for bathing is called a pan. Book of Rites (Liji), Great Record of Mourning: Bathe using a pottery basin. Great Learning (Daxue): The inscription on the pan of Tang. Commentary: A basin for bathing. Also, a country name. History of the Southern Dynasties (Nan Shi), Annals of Emperor Wu of Liang: The country of Panpan sent envoys to pay tribute. Also, the first to govern the world was the Pan Gu clan. Shuyi Ji: The Pan Gu clan is the beginning of husband, wife, yin, and yang; the ancestor of heaven, earth, and all things. Today, the people of the Pan Gu country in the South Sea all use Pan Gu as their surname. Also, a dog name. Gan Bao's In Search of the Supernatural (Soushen Ji): Emperor Gaoxin had a dog with a five-colored coat, named Pan Hu. Also, a surname. In the Longqing era of the Ming dynasty, there was Pan Ming. Also, Guangya: Panhuan (lingering/hesitating), meaning not advancing. Book of the Later Han (Hou Han Shu), Biography of Zhang Kai: Before this summons, he lingered and did not arrive. Also, interchangeable with ban. Erya, Explanation of Words: Joy. Book of Documents (Shujing), Song of the Five Sons: Then wandered about without restraint. Mencius: Indulgence in pleasure and arrogance. Also, interchangeable with pan (coiling). Jiyun: To curve. Records of the Grand Historian (Shiji), Rhapsody on the Sir of Fantasy (Zixu Fu): The mountains are winding, coiling, and dense. Zhuge Liang Zan: The early nine dragons coiling. Also, Pan Geng, a name of a Shang dynasty king. Book of the Former Han (Qian Han Shu), Table of Ancient and Modern People: Written as Ban Geng. Also, Goupan, one of the Nine Rivers. Erya, Commentary on Water: The water curves like a hook, the current circles and lingers. Also, a gate name. Lu Guangwei's Records of Wu Districts: Pan Gate, anciently written as Pan Gate. Once carved wood to make a coiled dragon to suppress the Yue state. Also, interchangeable with pan (large rock). Book of the Former Han (Qian Han Shu), Annals of Emperor Wen: The foundation of the imperial clan. Cheng Gongsu, Rhapsody on Whistling: Sitting on a large rock. Commentary: Pan is a large rock. Also, interchangeable with ban. Spring and Autumn Annals (Chunqiu), Yin, First Year Commentary: Guo Pu said: Fei is the fu-pan, a stinking insect. Jiyun: Written as fu-ban. Also, rhyming with pan (level tone). Ancient Poem: The upper branches are like pine and cypress, the lower roots rest on copper pans. The carved patterns are of different kinds, Li Lou sees them clearly. Also, rhyming with xuan (level tone). Zhang Heng, Rhapsody on the Southern Capital: Swaying and lingering, dancing, concluding the increased sorrow of late autumn, resenting the folding pan of the Western Chu. Commentary: Western Chu refers to the Chu dance. Folding pan describes the appearance of the dance. Also, in the Three Gorges of the Shu River, water waves that circle and turn are called pan. Also written as xuan. Zhang Guo, Yellow Ox Gorge Poem: Coiling eddies turn backward into the hollow ground, broken cliffs high up divide the winding clouds. Yuan Jue's Poem: Teaching the people to cover the grass with wind, transforming customs as water turns in eddies. Also, rhyming with ping (level tone). Cui Yuan, Inscription on the Tripod of General Dou: Yu engraved his tripod, Tang carved his pan. Recording merits and expressing warnings, to bequeath principles to those who follow. Yunbu: Geng is interchangeable with zhen. Shuowen Jiezi (Shuowen): Originally written as pan. Guangyun: Common form written as pan.