You Collection, Middle Volume Radical: Foot (zú) Character: ji Kangxi stroke count: 25 Page 1236, Entry 33 Broad Rhymes (Guangyun) and Collected Rhymes (Jiyun) state it is pronounced jie (falling tone), sounding the same as jie. Jade Chapter (Yupian) defines it as to trample. Records of the Grand Historian (Shiji), Biography of Sima Xiangru: That which the people tread and trample upon. Categorized Rhymes (Leipian) notes some versions use a simplified form. Furthermore, Broad Rhymes (Guangyun) and Collected Rhymes (Jiyun) state it is pronounced ji (rising tone), sounding the same as ji. The meaning is identical. Jade Chapter (Yupian) also records it as written in the variant form ji.