Xu Collection, Middle Volume Radical: Leek (jiǔ) Kangxi stroke count: 13 Page 1396, Entry 05 Ji jiu (variant of leek). According to Collection of Rhymes (Jiyun), it is the same as the character for leek. In A New Account of Tales of the World (Shishuo Xinyu), it is recorded that Yu Gaozhi was pure and lived by his own work; his meals consisted only of pickled leeks, raw leeks, and leeks. Someone teased him, saying: Who says Master Yu is poor? He eats twenty-seven kinds of sea and mountain delicacies. The annotations to the Explanation of Simple and Compound Characters (Shuowen Jiezi) by the Xu family state that when a leek is cut, it grows back, which makes it different from ordinary grasses, hence it has its own character. The addition of the grass radical in the Collection of Rhymes (Jiyun) is incorrect.