Chen Collection, Middle Volume Radical: Wood (mù) Character: Ruo Kangxi stroke count: 13 Page 538, Entry 29 Pronounced ruo (rising tone). Guangya (Broad Refinement): Ruoliu is a type of crabapple. Guangyun (Broad Rhymes): Ruoliu is a pomegranate. Also written as a variant form (ruo). Southern Capital Rhapsody (Nandu Fu) by Zhang Heng: The date plum and the pomegranate. Commentary to the Classic of Mountains and Seas (Shanhaijing Zhu): The most marvelous and spiritual of the great trees is called the ruo.