Wu Collection, Lower Volume Radical: Grain (hé) Fu Kangxi stroke count: 12 Page 853, Entry 20 Tang Rhyme (Tangyun), Collected Rhymes (Jiyun), Dictionary of Rhymes (Yunhui), and Rectified Rhymes (Zhengyun): Pronounced fu. Explaining Graphs and Analyzing Characters (Shuowen Jiezi): Also known as this. Xu says: Fu refers to the husk of grain. The flowering receptacle of plants is called fu, and the skin of wheat is called fu; both their sounds and meanings are identical. Broad Rhymes (Guangyun): The skin of grain. Also in Collected Rhymes (Jiyun): Pronounced fu. The meaning is the same. Sometimes written as the variant form fu. Also written as the variant form fu.