Mao Collection, Upper Volume
Radical: Heart (xīn)
Kangxi Strokes: 13
Page 394, Entry 22
Pronounced yi (falling tone)
The activation of the heart and mind.
Book of Rites (Liji), Commentary on the Great Learning (Daxue shu): All thoughts and considerations are called heart, and what is pondered by feelings is called intent.
Book of Rites (Liji), Evolution of Rites (Liyun): It was not done with intent.
Annotation: Intent means having no prior consideration in the heart.
Commentary: This refers to applying the mind to consider things in the invisible realm. No consideration means the absence of calculation.
Also, interchangeable with the term yi (suppress).
Xu Kai stated: What is manifested externally is called intent. Intent is like suppressing. Letting go of what one intended to say, wanting to express it but suppressing it instead.
Record of Rites by Dai the Elder (Da Dai Liji): Zhou Wuwang asked if the governance methods of the Yellow Emperor and Zhuanxu still existed, or if they had perhaps suddenly disappeared. Here, intent is used like suppress.
Analects (Lunyu): Let us give it to him.
Han Stone Classics: Written as intent; suppress is equivalent to intent, used interchangeably in ancient times.
Also, according to the Zhuanzhu Ancient Pronunciation, pronounced yi (level tone).
History of the Former Han (Qian Hanshu), Biography of Han Xin: Intent, a sigh of distress.
Also rhyming with yi (entering tone).
Inscription on the Stone at Zhifu, Qin Dynasty: Great indeed. Within the world, we uphold and submit to the sagely heart and mind. The ministers sing of the virtues, requesting to carve them on a stone tablet as a permanent model to guide future generations.
Also interchangeable with the term yi (chest/thought).
Jia Yi, Rhapsody on the Owl (Funiáo fù): Please allow me to answer using my own thoughts.
Records of the Grand Historian (Shiji): Written as thought.
Shi Gu stated: Rhyming with the sound of yi (entering tone).
Wei Xiao stated: Composed of the characters for heart and sound. Intent cannot be seen directly in its form; one must rely on language to grasp its meaning.
