p'en

Updated: June 7, 2025

The waiting-maid complied with her directions, and picked out four slips, on which were written "p'en, hun, hen and hun," pot, spirit, traces and dusk. "The two characters pot and door," observed Pao-yue, "are not very easy to rhyme with."

Xueqin Cao - Hung Lou Meng, or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel, Book II