Zi Collection, Middle Volume Radical: Person (rén) Zhi Kangxi stroke count: 17 Page 120, Entry 26 According to the Collection of Characters (Pianhai), it is pronounced zhi. It means upright and not inclined. According to research, the book Rhyme Collection (Jiyun) contains the character zhi but not this character, yet the definition for this character is identical to that of zhi. It is suspected that this character is an erroneous form of zhi that emerged during the process of manual transcription.