Chou Collection, Lower Volume Radical: Evening (xī) Entry: Dū Kangxi strokes: 12 Page 247, Entry 13 According to the Sound Rhymes (Jiyun), pronounced qì. The pronunciation is the same as the word for discard. According to the Comprehensive Refinement (Boya), dū means many or much. It is also pronounced jí. The meaning is the same. Sometimes written in a variant form (zhuàn) with the side component of the character qí.