Shen Collection, Lower Volume
Radical: Clothing (yī)
Character: chi
Kangxi strokes: 16
Page 1122, Entry 23
Pronounced chi. Meaning to seize clothing.
Book of Changes (Yijing), Hexagram of Litigation (Song): Someone is bestowed a belt, yet within one day it is snatched away multiple times.
Commentary: Three times it was snatched away.
Also pronounced zhi. Meaning the same.
Also refers to the cotton wadding of clothing.
Also pronounced yi. Meaning good fortune.
Also pronounced si.
Also pronounced yi. Meaning the same.
Also pronounced zhi (falling tone). Meaning to untie or take off.
Xunzi (Xunzi), Non-Physiognomy Chapter (Fei xiang pian): Exhausting the utmost etiquette and untying one's garments.
Commentary: Read as zhi.
Also pronounced chi. Refers to a mattress or pad, also known as a chi felt.
Textual Research:
Xunzi, Non-Physiognomy Chapter: Exhausting etiquette and chi.
Commentary: Read as falling tone. Following the original text, the reading has been corrected to zhi.