Wei Collection, Upper Volume Radical: Bamboo (zhú) Lu Kangxi strokes: 14 Page 887, Entry 22 According to the Extensive Rhyme (Guangyun) and Collected Rhymes (Jiyun), the pronunciation is lu (falling tone), sounding the same as the word for salary (lu). According to the Explaining Graphs and Analyzing Characters (Shuowen), it refers to a bamboo-made high chest or box. According to Collected Rhymes (Jiyun), the character for a bamboo basket (lu) is sometimes written in a variant form (lu), and it is also commonly used interchangeably with the character for a small box (lu).