Chen Collection, Middle Volume Radical: Tree (mù) Character: Fu Kangxi stroke count: 8 Page 515, Entry 06 Pronounced fu. Shuowen Jiezi (Explaining and Analyzing Characters) states: Fushu refers to branches spreading out in all directions. It is also the name of a type of tree. Guanzi (Book of Master Guan), Di Yuan chapter, states: In rich and fertile soil, paulownia trees, oak trees, fu trees, and dang trees grow. Additionally, according to the Jiyun (Collected Rhymes), it is the same as the character fu. Pronounced fu. It refers to the calyx of a flower. The original form of the character fu was written with the tree radical and the character fu.