 Because the character is now usually pronounced "jù" in its sense of "phrase" or "sentence", the town and county's name is frequently misread as "Yuānjù" in English sources.Although now has the variant readings "qú", "jù", "gōu", and "gòu" in different contexts, the Old Chinese pronunciation of all of these has been reconstructed as /*[k]ˤ(r)o.../ or as /*ko.../, with slightly different terminal consonants later developing into the modern pronunciations.Similarly, both and were originally pronounced /*qon/, leading to their interchangeable use in ancient records about the county.