Wei Collection, Lower Volume Radical: Boat (zhōu) Yi Kangxi Stroke Count: 19 Page 1012, Entry 52 According to the Extensive Rhymes (Guangyun), the Collected Rhymes (Jiyun), and the Collection of Rhymes (Yunhui), the pronunciation is yi (rising tone). It is the same as the character meaning to moor a boat toward the shore. In the Rhapsody on the Capital of Shu (Shudu Fu) by Zuo Si, it is written: Testing the water, the traveler moors the light boat. In a poem by Emperor Wen of Liang, it is written: The military vessels moor at the hot moat, the returning cavalry rest at the golden fosse.