Wu Collection, Lower Volume Radical: Grain (hé) Character: huo Kangxi stroke count: 11 Page 852, Entry 16 Broad Rimes (Guangyun) and Collected Rimes (Jiyun): Pronounced huo. To hull millet without breaking it. Another meaning is to sprout, referring to the sprouting of grain. Also according to Collected Rimes (Jiyun): Pronounced hua. Same meaning. In the Explaining Graphs and Analyzing Characters (Shuowen), it was originally written as a variant form.