Yin Collection, Lower Volume Radical: Wide (guǎng) Kangxi Strokes: 15 Page 350, Entry 18 Pronounced chu. Shuowen Jiezi (Explanation of Simple and Compound Characters): A kitchen shed. Mencius (Mengzi): Therefore, the superior man keeps away from the kitchen. Also, to manage or host. Biography of Partisans (Danggu Zhuan) in the Book of the Later Han (Hou Hanshu): Du Shang, Zhang Miao, Wang Kao, Liu Ru, Hu Wu Ban, Qin Zhou, Fan Xiang, and Wang Zhang were known as the Eight Kitchens. The term kitchen here implies those who are able to use their wealth to save others. Also, a cabinet. Biography of Gu Kaizhi in the Book of Jin (Jinshu): Kaizhi once entrusted a cabinet of paintings to Huan. Biography of Lu Cheng of Qi in the History of the Southern Dynasties (Nan Shi): Wang Jian joked to him, saying: Duke Lu is a library cabinet. Also, kui-chu, a type of fungus. Erya (Approaching Nearness): The zhongkui fungus. Commentary: An earth mushroom. Today in the region east of the Yangtze River, it is called earth fungus. It is also called kui-chu. Also, a type of tree. Jiyun (Collection of Rhymes): In the state of Sitiao, there is a tree called the chu tree; its sap is rich and can be used to boil cakes. Guangyun (Broad Rhymes): Commonly written as the variant form (chu).