Chou Collection, Middle Volume Radical: Earth (tǔ) Ji Kangxi stroke count: 11 Page 231, Entry 12 Ancient form. Pronounced ji. Book of Dialects (Fangyan): Ji means support. It is at the bottom, that upon which a thing relies. Book of Odes (Shijing), Greater Odes (Daya): To reside in the foundation and manage affairs. Pan Yue, Rhapsody on Tilling the Fields (Jitian Fu): To establish the spiritual footings of a lofty foundation. Also a farming implement. Mencius: Though one has a hoe (ziji). Also the site of a gatehouse. Book of Odes (Shijing), Eulogies of Zhou (Zhousong): From the hall to the foundation. Also a name of a musical composition. Apocryphal Texts of the Classic of Filial Piety (Xiaojing Wei): The music of Fuxi is called the Established Foundation (Liji). Also a mountain name. Classic of Mountains and Seas (Shanhai Jing): Three hundred miles east of Mount Danyuan is Mount Ji. Also, according to the Collected Rhymes (Jiyun), pronounced ji. Interchangeable with the word for a full year. Xianyang Lingtai: Inheriting the foundation year of the ancestral temple, the fish birthed again. Also rhyming with ji (falling tone). Liu Xiang, Eulogy of Exemplary Women (Lienü Song): Considered to be the foundation of the generation. Rhyming with the following word, bi.