Si Collection, Upper Volume Radical: Water (shuǐ) Entry: Lu Kangxi strokes: 12 Page 631, Entry 12 Pronounced qu. According to the Dialect (Fangyan) by Yang Xiong, to grasp is referred to as luna between the states of Song and Wei. In the Collected Rhymes (Jiyun), it is sometimes written in a variant form (ju). It is also commonly written as qu.