Zi Collection, Upper Volume Radical: Path (guī) Page 15, Entry 02 According to the Dictionary of Character Categories (Lei Pian), it is pronounced yu. It means a road where nine main thoroughfares intersect. It is also pronounced qiu, with a sound identical to kui. It means to pile up earth. It is also equivalent to the character kui (a basket for carrying earth). The History of the Later Han (Hou Hanshu), Record on the Calendar and Harmonics, records: Piling up a mountain but not completing it, lacking just one basket of earth.