Chen Collection, Middle Volume. Radical: Tree (mù). Kangxi stroke count: 13. Page 539, Entry 16. Tang Rhymes (Tangyun), Collected Rhymes (Jiyun), Dictionary of Rhymes (Yunhui), and Correct Rhymes (Zhengyun) all consider this identical to the character read as ji. In the Rites of Zhou (Zhouli), section Winter Officials, Artificers' Record (Kaogongji), there are five types of scraping and polishing craftsmen: jade workers, walking-stick makers, carvers, musical stone makers, and arrow makers. According to Collected Rhymes (Jiyun), it is pronounced ji (high level tone). Jili refers to a type of tree. It can be used to make walking sticks. According to Fan Chengda in his Poem for the New Year of the Bingwu Year: in my illness, I cherish the Jili wooden staff that I am accustomed to carrying with me. Also, Jiepei is the name of a county. According to the History of the Former Han (Qian Hanshu), Geography Treatise (Dilizhi), it belonged to Wei Commandery. It is also written in a variant form (ji).