Wei Collection, Upper Volume Radical: Bamboo (zhú) Ruò Kangxi stroke count: 16 Page 894, Entry 03 According to the Sound of Rhymes (Jiyun), it is pronounced ruo. Same as the variant ruo. Sometimes written in the variant form ruo. In the Mountain Dwelling Rhapsody (Shanju fu) by Xie Lingyun: Plucking the ruo (bamboo sheath) in the valley. Also refers to a type of bamboo shoot. In the Commentary on the Testament (Gu ming zhuan) of the Book of Documents (Shujing): Sun ruo refers to bamboo. In the Bamboo Shoot Treatise (Sun pu) by the monk Zanning: The bamboo shoot has another name, ruo bamboo. The inner skin within the soil is called ruo.