Mao Collection, Upper Volume Radical: Heart (xīn) Ji Kangxi stroke count: 21 Page 408, Entry 38 According to the Broad Rhymes (Guangyun), the Collected Rhymes (Jiyun), and the Collection of Rhymes (Yunhui), the pronunciation is ji. According to the Correct Rhymes (Zhengyun), the pronunciation is ji (falling tone). According to the Jade Chapters (Yupian), people in the north refer to someone who is fierce and strong as ji. It also refers to a fierce and perverse nature, meaning cruel and vicious. Records of the Grand Historian (Shiji), Biography of Moneymakers: The people there rely on their own strength, are fierce and cruel, fond of bravery, and enjoy quarreling, using their martial force to commit evil deeds. Commonly written with the heart radical and the character ji, which is incorrect.