Hai Collection, Middle Volume Radical: Bird (niǎo) Chu Kangxi Dictionary Stroke Count: 21 Page 1496, Entry 21 Broad Rhymes (Guangyun): Pronounced chu Collected Rhymes (Jiyun): Pronounced chu Zhuangzi (Zhuangzi), Autumn Floods chapter: There is a bird in the south named the Yuan-Chu. Also, Jade Chapters (Yupian): Chu, a newly hatched bird capable of pecking for food. Sometimes written in a variant form (chu).