You Collection, Middle Volume Radical: Foot (zú) Character: Zong Kangxi stroke count: 16 Page 1230, Entry 14 According to the Collection of Sea Characters (Pianhai), it is pronounced zu. It means urgent or hurried. It also carries the meaning of being near or close. In terms of pronunciation and meaning, it is the same as the character for urge (cu). Characters formed with the phonetic element (qiu) are sometimes written with the phonetic element (qiu), for instance, the way the character for loach (qiu) is sometimes written with a different component is an example of this phenomenon.