Chou Collection, Middle Volume Radical: Earth (tǔ) Page 226, Entry 34 Pronounced liu. Refers to the appearance of piled up clods of earth. Another interpretation describes it as high, dry land. Book of the Former Han (Qian Hanshu), Records of Suburban Sacrifices (Jiaosi Zhi) records that the Yellow River flooded up to the Gao-lu region. There is also a place name Lu-liang, which belonged to the Yue territory. Records of the Grand Historian (Shiji), Annals of Qin (Qin Benji) records that the State of Qin dispatched merchants and men marrying into their wives' families to attack Southern Yue, capturing the Lu-liang region. The character for land (lu) was originally written as this character. In the small seal script, adding the radical Mound (fù) evolved into the current character for land (lu).