Mao Collection, Middle Volume Radical: Hand (shǒu) Kangxi Strokes: 16 Page 455, Entry 04 Pronounced ji The meaning is to seize or grasp with the hand. Records of the Grand Historian (Shiji), Biography of Sun Zi: Encourage those fighting to refrain from participating in the brawl. Commentary: One should use the hands to separate and mediate, not to assist in the struggling. Yang Xiong, Dispersing Difficulties: Grasping tangled things to fly up to the ninth heaven. Commonly written as the character for halberd (ji).