Si Collection, Upper Volume Radical: Water (shuǐ) Zhi Kangxi stroke count: 12 Page 629, Entry 25 Pronounced chi Pronounced chi Explained in Explaining Graphs and Analyzing Characters (Shuowen Jiezi) as the name of a river. One account states it originates in Yingchuan. Also refers to a type of grass. Recorded in Approaching Elegance (Erya), section Explaining Grasses as zhi-guan. Guo Pu commentary states the meaning is unclear. Also, in the Collected Rhymes (Jiyun), it is pronounced zhi. The meaning is the same.