Zi Collection, Middle Volume Radical: Person (rén) Character: zhì Kangxi stroke count: 11 Page 111, number 24 According to the Collected Rimes (Jiyun) and Rime Assembly (Yunhui), the pronunciation is a combination of zhàng and lǐ, sounded as zhì. The Analytical Dictionary of Characters (Shuowen Jiezi) defines it as to wait for. It also means to prepare or to provide. In the Discourses of the States (Guoyu), Duke Xiang of Shan is quoted as saying: Prepare the baskets and frames. In Yang Xiong's Rhapsody on the Barricade Hunt (Xiaolie Fu), it is used in the context of storing up and providing supplies. It is also interchangeable with the character zhì. The Classic of Poetry (Shijing) states: Prepare your spades and hoes. It is also interchangeably written in the forms zhì or zhì. The Approaching the Correct (Erya) defines it as to prepare. The Classic of History (Shujing) states: Prepare your dried grain. The Classic of Poetry also states: In order to prepare their rations. The Book of the Later Han (Houhanshu) records in the Annals of Emperor Zhang: There should be no establishing of stored provisions.