Hai Collection, Middle Volume Radical: Bird (niǎo) Character: Xiū Kangxi strokes: 17 Page 1489, Entry 01 Broad Rhymes (Guangyun): Pronounced xiū. Collected Rhymes (Jiyun): Pronounced xiū. The name of a bird. Explanations of Words (Guangya): The fat owl, or the owl, is a type of strange owl. Rites of Zhou (Zhouli), Offices of Heaven, Zheng Commentary: The bird of misfortune is the owl. Zhuangzi, Autumn Floods: The owl catches fleas at night, observing the finest details, yet at noon it blinks its eyes and cannot see a mountain. Also, Collected Rhymes (Jiyun): Pronounced qiú. Meaning is the same.