Xu Collection, Middle Volume. Radical: Mound (fù). Sheng. Kangxi strokes: 12. Page 1346, position 10. According to the Collected Rimes (Jiyun), the phonetic spelling is shū and zhēng, and the pronunciation is shēng. It means to ascend. The character was originally written in the form of shēng. It is sometimes also written in a variant form.