Hai Collection, Middle Volume Radical: Bird (niǎo) Character: Ju Kangxi stroke count: 20 Page 1495, Entry 23 Pronounced ju. Pronounced ju. The pronunciation is the same as the character for a wild dog (ju). This is the original form of the character for a shrike (ju). The Explanation of Script and Elucidation of Characters (Shuowen Jiezi) defines it as a shrike. Furthermore, according to the Collected Pronunciations of the Five Sounds (Wuyin Jiyun), there is a pronunciation of qi, which is the same as the pronunciation of another variant. The meaning is the same.