Chen Collection, Middle Volume Radical: Tree (mù) Lu (lü) Kangxi stroke count: 19 Page 560, Entry 01 Tang Rhymes (Tangyun): Pronounced lü. Collected Rhymes (Jiyun), Rhyme Meetings (Yunhui), and Orthodox Rhymes (Zhengyun): Pronounced lü. Binglü (a type of palm tree). Sometimes written in the variant form lü. See the note under the character bing. Furthermore, Compendium of Materia Medica (Bencao Shiyi): Lü wood comes from Annam (modern-day Vietnam). It is hard in nature and purplish-red in color. The variety with grain patterns is called hualü (flowered lü).