Hai Collection, Middle Volume Radical: Bird (niǎo) Character: Shi Kangxi Stroke Count: 21 Page 1496, Entry 17 According to the Collected Rhymes (Jiyun), pronounced shi. It is the same as the character for lion. It is the name of a bird. In the Record of All Things (Bowuzhi), it is noted that in the Western Sea of the Tiaozhi kingdom, there is a great bird known as the lion-bird. Originally written as the character for lion, it is common practice to add the bird radical to the side.