Wu Collection, Lower Volume Radical: Spirit (shì) Character: Zhi Kangxi stroke count: 10 Page 841, Entry 20 Ancient form is Jie. Guangyun: Pronounced zhi. Jiyun, Yunhui: Pronounced zhi. Zhengyun: Pronounced zhi. Erya, Explanation of Glosses (Erya): To respect. Classic of History (Shujing): Respectfully receive the mandate of the Emperor. Rites of Zhou (Zhouli), Spring Offices, Director of Music: Use musical virtue to teach the sons of the state, focusing on harmony, respect, moderation, filial piety, and fraternal duty. Zheng'e: Formed from the radical for spirit with the phonetic component di. Seeing the manifestation of a spirit leads to respect. It is an ideogram. Zhengzitong: Interchangeable with qi. Hao Jing states that zhi is formed from the character shi with a horizontal stroke below it; although rhyme dictionaries list them separately, they are in fact the same.