I CHING LEXICON shi4 R#:6 Strokes:7,8 Wade/Giles:shih4 Freq:27 (borr.) affair, thing; to serve, manage; business Karlgren: #889. Legge: (1) An affair, affairs; business. (2) Labours; the result of a labour. (3) To serve... Wieger: #44F, To serve. jia3jie4 [borrowed meaning] any affair. Hand acting zhi1 with zhong1 fidelity, is a false interpretation. This character has nothing to do with shi3. It represents the hand of a son inviting the soul of his ancestor. Wilder: #96, To serve, affairs, office, matter, anything... it is from shi3 , shows a hand holding a stylus. A recorder, to record. In shi4 the top is zhi1 , the pronoun it. An event , record it faithfully. Legge, Great Learning, text, line 3, , affairs have their end and their beginning. H1 WY H1 WY H1 L6 WY H2 L3 H2 L3 Image H2 WY H2 WY H6 Image H6 L1 H6 L1 Image H6 L3

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