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.