Chou Collection, Lower Volume Radical: Woman (nǚ) Ji Kangxi stroke count: 9 Page 259, Entry 22 Pronounced ji (rising tone) Pronounced ji (rising tone) Pronounced ji (rising tone) The pronunciation is the same as ji (rising tone). It is a surname. It is also used as a personal name. Book of Odes (Shijing): Choose a residence for Han Ji; none are as good as the music of Han. Zuo Commentary (Zuozhuan), Third Year of Duke Xuan: A secondary wife of Duke Wen of Zheng was named Yan Ji. She dreamed that a heavenly messenger gave her an orchid and said: I am Bo Shu, your ancestor. Shi Gui said: I have heard that those of the Ji surname are auspicious people and are the primary wives of Houji. Annotation: Yan Ji is a surname from the State of Nanyan. Discourses of the States (Guoyu): Among the sons of the Yellow Emperor, fourteen obtained surnames, and Ji was one of them. Bronze Inscriptions: Written as such. Sometimes also written in variant forms (ji) or (tu-ji) or (zhi).