Hai Collection, Middle Volume Radical: Bird (niǎo) Yuan Kangxi strokes: 19 Page 1492, Entry 22 According to the Extensive Rhymes (Guangyun), the Collected Rhymes (Jiyun), and the Rhyme Collection (Yunhui), the pronunciation is yuan. Yuan chu is a type of bird in the phoenix family. In the Autumn Floods (Qiushui) chapter of the Zhuangzi, it is written that there is a bird in the south called the yuan chu. Sometimes also written in a variant form (wan). In the Rhapsody on the Sir Fantasy (Zixu fu) by Sima Xiangru, it is recorded as wan chu kong luan.