You Collection, Upper Volume Radical: Speech (yán) Jie Kangxi strokes: 14 Page 1163, Entry 13 Tang Yun: Pronounced jie Jiyun, Yunhui, Zhengyun: Pronounced jie The pronunciation is the same as the character for戒. Shuowen: Meaning an official order. Yupian: Meaning to command or to admonish. Guangyun: Meaning to use words to warn. Zengyun: Words used to alert and admonish are called jie. Book of Changes (Yijing), Bi Hexagram: People within the city walls do not admonish one another (yet they naturally become attached). Also, Xici: To receive a small punishment and thus gain a great warning. Zuo Tradition (Zuozhuan), Duke Huan, Year 11: The army of the state of Yun is stationed in the suburbs, they will certainly not be on guard. Records of the Grand Historian (Shiji), Annals of Zhou: Thereupon he ordered Bo Jiong to repeatedly admonish the grand steward. Xunzi, Chapter on a Powerful State: To issue admonitions and promulgate orders such that the enemy retreats is the power of the sovereign. Wenzhongzi, Chapter on Asking about the Changes: The superior person reflects on faults and guards against them beforehand, therefore there is the word jie. Zhengyun: Identical to the character for 戒. Also refers to the name of a sword. Daojian Lu: King Zhao of Qin forged a sword three feet long, with an inscription naming it Jie. Also rhymes with the sound ji. Liu Xiang, Eulogy for Notable Women: Although it speaks of the standards for women, it is actually an admonitory mirror for men. If both men and women read these, affairs will be perfectly complete. Also, Leipian: Sometimes written in a variant form. Zihui Bu: Miswritten as a variant form, which is incorrect.