Si Collection, Upper Volume Radical: Water (shuǐ) Zhi Kangxi stroke count: 10 Page 620, Entry 07 Wide Rhymes (Guangyun): Pronounced zhi (rising tone). Collected Rhymes (Jiyun): Pronounced zhi (rising tone). Explanatory Note: Pronounced zhi. Analytical Dictionary of Characters (Shuowen): Refers to water that increases temporarily and remains stagnant, not yet having receded. Another theory states it is the same as the character for a small islet (zhi). Tale of the Son of Heaven (Tianzi Zhuan): To drink amidst the branching waters (zhi). Note: Where water branches to form a zhi. Zhi is a small islet in the water. Also, Tang Rhymes (Tangyun) and Collected Rhymes (Jiyun): Pronounced zhi (falling tone). Refers to a high plot of land rising out of water. Also, Collected Rhymes (Jiyun): Pronounced shi (falling tone). The meaning is the same.