Si Collection, Upper Volume Radical: Water (shuǐ) Entry: hu Kangxi stroke count: 15 Page 644, Entry 01 Pronounced hu (rising tone). Shuowen Jiezi (Explanation of Characters and Analysis of Compound Figures): The bank of a body of water. Erya (Approaching Elegance), Explaining Mounds: Land above the bank is called hu. Sub-commentary: Flat land on a bank that is a distance away from the water is called hu. Book of Odes (Shijing), Odes of Wang: On the bank of the river. Also, a branch of the Huai River. Erya, Explaining Water: The Huai is called the hu. Shuowen Jiezi: Originally written as xu, sometimes also written as hu. Yupian (Jade Chapters): Identical to the variant form hu.