Hai Collection, Lower Volume Radical: Bird (niǎo) Character: Yue Kangxi strokes: 25 Page 1503, Entry 33 Pronounced yue. Shuowen Jiezi (Shuowen): Yuezuo, a type of phoenix. A divine bird. Discourses of the States (Zhouyu): When the Zhou dynasty was rising, a yuezuo bird sang at Mount Qi. Zhang Shuo, Ode on Holding the Imperial Talisman (Woganfu Song): The singing yue marks a change in the reign. Compendium of Materia Medica (Bencao): In the rivers there is a yuezuo, resembling a wild duck but larger, with red eyes. It is noted that this is merely a sound shift of the term chuyu. Jiyun (Collection of Rhymes): Sometimes written in a variant form.