Si Collection, Upper Volume Radical: Water (shuǐ) 滯 Kangxi stroke count: 15 Page 643, Entry 29 Tangyun, Jiyun, Yunhui, Zhengyun: Pronounced zhì. Sound is the same as the character for swine. Shuowen: The meaning is to congeal or to not circulate. Discourses of Zhou (Zhouyu): Thunder shakes and clears away stagnation. (This refers to thunder vibrating and clearing away things that are clogged or blocked). Also refers to accumulation. Discourses of Lu (Luyu): I venture to report the accumulated supplies, so as to relieve the burden of the officials. Also refers to what is left behind or missed. Book of Odes (Shijing), Lesser Odes (Xiaoya): Here there are grain ears left behind. Rites of Zhou (Zhouli), Earth Offices (Diguan), Market Officials (Chanren): Regarding all rare and unusual goods that are stagnant, collect them and deposit them into the royal kitchen treasury. Commentary (Shu): Refers to those rare items that are stockpiled and not selling. Also, Zuo Tradition (Zuozhuan), 18th Year of Duke Cheng: Duke Dao of Jin ordered the hundred officials to support those who were discarded or left behind. (This refers to Duke Dao of Jin ordering officials to recommend talented people who had been buried or overlooked). Jiyun: Pronounced zhì. Sound is the same as the character for reach or grasp. Refers to musical temperaments that are not in harmony. Sometimes written in a variant form (chì). Also written as (dì). Also pronounced yì. Describes the appearance of water spray splashing and scattering. Yunbu: Rhymes with zhài, sound is similar. Songs of Chu (Chuci), Nine Chapters (Jiuzhang): I ride in a covered boat and travel up the Yuan River, the rowers raise their oars together to strike the waves. The boat is slow and hesitant to move forward, lingering in the swirling waters, frozen and stagnant.