Mao Collection, Upper Volume Radical: Heart (xīn) Kangxi stroke count: 14 Page 398, Entry 02 Pronounced dai. Shuowen Jiezi (Explanation of Simple and Compound Characters): Intent. Composed of the heart radical and the character for able (néng). Xu Kai stated: When the heart is able to perform an action, only then does an attitude (tai) exist. Sometimes written in a variant form with the person radical. Pronounced nai. Same meaning as above. Rhyming with du. Sima Xiangru, Rhapsody on Sir Fantasy (Zixu Fu): Observing the violent rage of a strong man, and the terror of a wild beast, circling, accepting, crouching, exhaustively viewing the changing attitudes (tai) of all things. Rhyming with ti. Strategies of the Warring States (Zhan Guo Ce): Once the statutes and regulations were prepared, the people frequently displayed false attitudes (tai). Songs of Chu (Chuci), Nine Chapters (Jiuzhang): He who has been scalded by hot soup will blow upon it; why not change this aspiration? Wishing to release the stairs and ascend to heaven; still possessing the attitude (tai) of the past. Rhyming with ti. Sima Xiangru, Treatise on the Feng and Shan Sacrifices (Fengshan Shu): With white substance and black markings, its meaning is gratifying. Calm and solemn, the attitude (tai) of a noble man. Rhyming with ti. Qu Yuan, Encountering Sorrow (Lisao): I am depressed and frustrated, lonely and dejected; I am uniquely impoverished at this time. Rather than die suddenly and be cast away, I cannot bear to adopt this attitude (tai).