You Collection, Upper Volume Radical: Speech (yán) Qu Kangxi stroke count: 12 Page 1155, Entry 02 Sound of Rime Dictionary (Jiyun): Pronounced qu (rising tone). Classification Compendium (Leipian): It refers to sound. Comprehensive Discourses in the White Tiger Hall (Baihutong): In ancient times, the people slept with a low murmuring sound and arose with a sighing sound.