Chou Collection, Middle Volume Radical: Earth (tǔ) 垡 Kangxi stroke count: 9 Page 228, Entry 18 Broad Rhymes (Guangyun), Collected Rhymes (Jiyun), and Rhyme Meeting (Yunhui): Pronounced fa. Soil clods turned over when plowing fields. Poem by Han Yu: I anticipated an audience to express gratitude for imperial favor, then retired due to illness to grow old plowing the earth. Sometimes written with the element for hair (fa), written as two variant forms. Also written as a variant form.