Wu Collection, Lower Volume Radical: Grain (hé) Character: Xu Kangxi Stroke Count: 15 Page 857, Entry 21 Pronounced xu (falling tone). Same as the character meaning to store. It means to accumulate or gather. Strategies of the Warring States (Zhanguo Ce): To accumulate and store until it rots and becomes unusable. Book of the Later Han (Hou Hanshu), Biography of Yuan Shao: To gather soldiers and horses to punish those who do not come to court.