Mao Collection, Middle Volume Radical: Hand (shǒu) Kangxi strokes: 8 Page 420, Entry 02 Tang Rhymes (Tangyun): Pronounced qi. Collection Rhymes (Jiyun), Rhyme Meetings (Yunhui), Correct Rhymes (Zhengyun): Pronounced qi (rising tone). Explaining Graphs and Analyzing Characters (Shuowen): Skill. Book of Rites (Liji), Royal Regulations: To create strange skills and strange implements to bewilder the masses. Commentary: For example, if Gongshu Ban requested to use a mechanical burial device, he referred to the person's skill as a strange skill and the device as a strange implement. History of the Former Han (Qianhan), Treatise on Arts and Literature: Those who possess technical skills train their hands and feet, become proficient with instruments, and accumulate mechanical devices in order to establish victory in attack and defense. Guangyun: Art. Also, methods or arts. Book of Rites (Liji), Royal Regulations: All who hold skills to serve their superiors are the invokers, scribes, archers, charioteers, physicians, diviners, and the hundred craftsmen. Book of Rites (Liji), Record of Manners: To value skill while disparaging virtue leads the people to cultivate arts. Also: Ability. Book of Documents (Shujing), Oaths of Qin: With single-mindedness, one has no other skill. Collection Rhymes (Jiyun), Rhyme Meetings (Yunhui), Correct Rhymes (Zhengyun): Pronounced ji. Same meaning. Commonly written as the variant form (jì).