執 — Chinese character
執
zhí
to execute; to grasp, to hold; to keep; to sieze, to detain
- Pinyin
- zhí
- Radical
- 32 ⼟ (Earth)
- Strokes
- 11
- Components
- 幸 丸
- Formation
- ideographic — A hand 幸 clutching a pebble 丸
- Simplified
- 执
- Japanese
- 執 as a kanji
執 in the Chinese classics
Occurrences: Tao Te Ching 8 · Analects 14 · I Ching 3 · Mencius 14 · Zhuangzi 26 · Doctrine of the Mean 4
- Tao Te Ching Chapter 14
- Tao Te Ching Chapter 29
- Tao Te Ching Chapter 35
- Tao Te Ching Chapter 64
- Tao Te Ching Chapter 69
- Tao Te Ching Chapter 74
- Tao Te Ching Chapter 79
- Analects 6.8
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