Wei Collection, Upper Volume Radical: Bamboo (zhú) Gou Kangxi strokes: 19 Page 902, Entry 01 In Collected Rhymes (Jiyun) and Orthography of Rhymes (Zhengyun), this character is equivalent to gou. Records of the Grand Historian (Shiji), Biography of Turtle Divination: The fuling fungus is found beneath the dodder; one clears away the dodder by night and uses a gou to illuminate this ground. Commentary: Xu Guang says: A gou is a basket; one lights a fire within it to cover and hold the light above.