Wu Collection, Lower Volume
Radical: Spirit (shì)
Page 840, Entry 03
Pronounced qi (rising tone)
Meaning: Grand, vast.
Book of Documents (Shangshu): Records the severe cold of winter.
Book of Odes (Shijing): Gazing far into the plains, they are vast and abundant.
Also refers to a slow and leisurely manner.
Book of Odes (Shijing): Head ornaments worn in a slow and leisurely manner.
Also: Drizzling rain falling slowly.
Also denotes a large number.
Book of Odes (Shijing): Those gathering white mugwort are numerous.
Also: Many concubines follow her, moving slowly and leisurely like clouds.
Annotation: Qiqi describes a slow and leisurely appearance. Like clouds describes a large number.
Also a surname.
Also used as a variant for zhi.
Records of the Grand Historian (Shiji): Yao had the surname Yiqi.
Book of Rites (Liji): Written as Yiqi.
Also a county name, located in Taiyuan.
Also a posthumous title.
Zuo Commentary (Zuozhuan): Marquis Qi of Deng.
Commentary: The laws of posthumous titles state that one who does not change the established statutes is called Qi. In the state of Wei, there was Shi Qizi.
Also: Records of the Grand Historian (Shiji): One who upholds the legal code and does not kill wantonly is called Qi.
Annotation: Upholding the constant way without decline.
Pronounced zhi (rising tone)
A place name.
Textual research: Book of Odes (Shijing): Those that are slow and leisurely. According to the original text, the character for that has been corrected to the character for that (be).