Chou Collection, Upper Volume Radical: Mouth (kǒu) Character: Pen Kangxi stroke count: 16 Page 211, Entry 06 Broad Rhymes (Guangyun), Collected Rhymes (Jiyun), Rhyme Meetings (Yunhui), and Correct Rhymes (Zhengyun): Pronounced men (rising tone). Explaining Writing (Shuowen): To rebuke. Jade Chapters (Yupian): To flare the nostrils. Broad Rhymes (Guangyun): To exhale. Strategies of the Warring States (Zhanguoce): To lower the head and exhale, to raise the head and cry out. Zhuangzi, Autumn Floods: When gushing forth, the large ones are like pearls and the small ones are like mist, falling in a chaotic mixture that cannot be counted. Han Shi Waizhuan: Speaking urgently with a puffing sound, saliva spraying and eyes reddening. Broad Rhymes (Guangyun): Equivalent to the character fen. Collected Rhymes (Jiyun): Sometimes written in a variant form (fen). Also: Broad Rhymes (Guangyun): Pronounced hun. Collected Rhymes (Jiyun), Rhyme Meetings (Yunhui), and Correct Rhymes (Zhengyun): Pronounced pun. Meaning is the same. Broad Rhymes (Guangyun): Originally written as fen. To spray water. Collected Rhymes (Jiyun): Pronounced fen. The sound of blowing air. Also pronounced fen. To rebuke in anger. Dictionary Compilation (Zihui): Written as pen and attached to the twelve-stroke section, which is incorrect. This is now corrected. The character pen is derived from the form as shown.