Wei Collection, Upper Volume Radical: Bamboo (zhú) Hong Kangxi strokes: 15 Page 892, Entry 24 Collected Rimes (Jiyun): Pronounced hong. Book of Categories (Leipian): Used for guiding water with bamboo. Another interpretation is bamboo and wood bound together in a bundle. Also, Collected Rimes (Leipian): Pronounced gong. A bamboo implement used for drying objects. Also, Correct Meaning through Thorough Investigation (Zhengzitong): A tool for catching fish. Miscellaneous Morsels from Youyang (Youyang Zazu): In the Jin Dynasty, a person in Qiantang made a hong, catching hundreds of millions of fish each year; it was called the ten-thousand-craftsman hong. Poem by Lu Guimeng: Upon arriving at the riverbank to seek out fishing affairs, woven bamboo forms a ten-thousand-foot hong in the midstream. Collected Works of Yang Shen (Yang Shen Ji): The character hong derives from hong. A stone bridge obstructing a water flow is called a hong; Shehong and Lüliang Hong are examples of this. Adding the bamboo radical to hong forms the character hong, likely referring to a weir or dam made of bamboo for catching fish.