Si Collection, Upper Volume Radical: Water (shuǐ) Pan Kangxi Dictionary Stroke Count: 9 Page 618, Entry 12 Ancient form written as nuan. Pronounced pan (falling tone). Shuowen Jiezi (Explanation of Simple and Compound Characters): A palace for archers of the feudal lords; it has water on the southwest and a wall on the northeast. Book of Odes (Shijing), Odes of Lu: Joyful is the semicircular water. Commentary (Jian): The word pan means half. A half-watered area means that the water flows south from the eastern and western gates, but not to the north. Book of Rites (Liji), Royal Regulations: Built a semicircular palace. Comprehensive Statutes (Tongdian): There is a Pan River in Sishui County, Yanzhou. Also means to disperse. Book of Odes (Shijing), Odes of Bei: Until the ice has not yet melted. Also written in a variant form (pan). Records of the Grand Historian (Shiji), Biography of Lu Jia: Since the heavens and earth were divided, this has never existed before. Also used interchangeably with the word for bank. Book of Odes (Shijing), Odes of Wei: In the low-lying fields, there are banks. Commentary (Zhuan): Pan means a slope. Commentary (Jian): Pan is to be read as bank.