You Collection, Middle Volume Radical: Shell (bèi) Character: qiu Kangxi Stroke Count: 14 Page 1209, Entry 01 Broad Rhymes (Guangyun): Pronounced qiu. Collected Rhymes (Jiyun), Rhyme Compendium (Yunhui), and Correct Rhymes (Zhengyun): Pronounced qiu. According to the Explaining Graphs and Analyzing Characters (Shuowen): To use wealth or property to offer bribes in order to distort the law. Xu states: To use improper means to obtain something. Records of the Grand Historian (Shiji), Biography of Jesters: Also worried about accepting bribes and distorting the law. Additionally, according to the Jade Chapters (Yupian): Qiu means to pledge or mortgage, and it also means to request.