Si Collection, Upper Volume
Radical: Water (shuǐ)
Kangxi Strokes: 15
Page 643, Entry 24
Tang Rhymes (Tangyun), Collection Rhymes (Jiyun), Rhyme Meetings (Yunhui), Correct Rhymes (Zhengyun): Pronounced zhì. Pronounced the same as the word for pig.
Explaining Characters (Shuowen): To congeal and not flow.
Discourses of the States (Zhouyu): Thunder causes stagnant things to disperse.
Also refers to accumulation.
Discourses of the States (Luyu): Boldly reporting accumulated supplies to relieve the burden on those in charge.
Also refers to omission.
Book of Odes (Shijing), Lesser Odes: There are fallen grains left behind.
Also, Rites of Zhou (Zhouli), Office of Earth, Market Officers: Any precious or strange goods that are stagnant and do not sell are collected and sent to the Office of Provisions. Commentary: Refers to goods that have piled up and cannot be sold.
Also, Zuo Tradition (Zuo Zhuan), Eighteenth Year of Duke Cheng: Duke Dao of Jin ordered the officials to reorganize neglected and accumulated affairs.
Also, Collection Rhymes (Jiyun): Pronounced zhì. Pronounced the same as the word for grasp. Refers to musical tones that are not in harmony. Sometimes written in a variant form (chì). Also written in a variant form (dì).
Also pronounced yì. Describes the appearance of water scattering.
Also, Rhyme Supplements (Yunbu): Rhymes with dài.
Songs of Chu (Chuci), Nine Chapters: I ride a small boat with windows and go upstream along the Yuan River, together we raise the great oars of the Wu region to strike the waves. The boat is slow and unwilling to advance, lingering in the swirling currents.