Wei Collection, Upper Volume Radical: Bamboo (zhú) Pang Kangxi Stroke Count: 16 Page 894, Entry 21 Broad Rhymes (Guangyun): Pronounced pang. Collected Rhymes (Jiyun): Pronounced pang. Classified Chapters (Leipian): A type of winnowing basket. Also, a type of bamboo. Bamboo Treatise (Zhupu) by Dai Kaizhi: Leaves grow in uneven clusters, found in the southern borders. If it injures a person, they will die, and medicine cannot cure it. It is also called pang bamboo, for its poison is such as this. Broad Rhymes (Guangyun): Pronounced peng. Collected Rhymes (Jiyun), Correct Rhymes (Zhengyun): Pronounced peng. Extensive Elegantia (Boya): A cage. Local Dialects (Fangyan) by Yang Xiong: A cage is called pang in the region between the Yangtze and Mian rivers in Southern Chu. Also means to beat or flog. Same as the character bang. History of the Later Han (Hou Hanshu), Biography of Yu Yan: When Yan was the Magistrate of Luoyang, a guest of the Yin family named Ma Cheng committed robbery. Yan arrested and interrogated him. The Yin family repeatedly interceded, and for every letter received, Yan added two hundred lashes. Commentary: Pang means to beat with a rod. Pronounced peng.