Yin Collection, Upper Volume Radical: Roof (bù) Ji Kangxi strokes: 11 Page 288, Entry 01 Pronounced ji (falling tone). Shuowen Jiezi (Explanation of Graphs and Analysis of Characters): No human sound. Originally written with the radical for small bean (shu) under the roof (mian) radical. Xu says: This is the character mo. Modern texts write it as ji. Guangyun (Broad Rhymes): Quiet, peaceful. Book of Changes (Yijing), Appended Remarks: Without thought, without action. Quiet and unmoving, sensitive and able to comprehend the principles of all things under heaven. Shangshu (Classic of History), Preface by Kong Anguo: The Way itself is void, quiet, and desolate. It possesses neither names nor language. Jinshu (Book of Jin), Biography of Gu Kaizhi: Serving as Magistrate of Shanyin, he kept the curtains lowered during the day, and the steps before the gate were quiet and soundless. Also written in a variant form. Chu Ci (Songs of Chu), Distant Journey: The wilderness is empty and quiet, without a human shadow. Jiyun (Compilation of Rhymes): Also written as the variants chi and ji.