Shen Collection, Upper Volume Radical: Grass (cǎo) 莇 Kangxi stroke count: 13 Page 1033, Entry 13 General Rhymes (Jiyun): Pronounced zhu. A type of grass. It is the same as the gouqi plant. Also, according to the Categorized Compilation (Leipian), it is pronounced zhu. In the time of the Shang dynasty, men at seventy years of age would cultivate the land. Sometimes also written in a variant form (zhu).