Zi Collection, Middle Volume Radical: Person (rén) Value: 10 strokes Page 108, Entry 15 Tang Rhyme (Tangyun), Collection Rhyme (Jiyun), Rhyme Meetings (Yunhui): Pronounced zhi. Shuowen: To place or put. Also means to encounter or meet. It further means to hold or grasp. Book of Odes (Shijing): Holding his egret feathers. Commentary: Zhi means to hold. It refers to a dance implement made of egret feathers, which the dancer holds to guide movements. Also interchangeable with the character meaning straight. Records of the Grand Historian (Shiji), Biography of Ning Cheng: Did not encounter the anger of Ning Cheng. The price of an object is also called zhi. Sometimes also written in a variant form (zhi).