Zi Collection, Middle Volume. Radical: Person (rén). Cù. Kangxi stroke count: 9. Page 104, Number 05. Tang Rhymes (Tangyun): fanqie pronunciation qi-yu. Collected Rhymes (Jiyun) and Rhyme Assembly (Yunhui): fanqie pronunciation qu-yu. Pronounced the same as cù. Urgent, close, and dense. It also describes a cramped and narrow appearance. The wailing sparrows in the empty city, how sorrowful and constrained are their life plans — Poetry of Li Bai (Li Bai shi). It also refers to the term cicu (busy or driven). In the Biography of Pan Yue within the Book of Jin (Jinshu), a ballad from the gallery says: He Qiao is so busy and driven that he gets no rest. The commentary notes this refers to being enslaved by the affairs of the world. This character is also used interchangeably with the character qù (to hurry).