Wu Collection, Middle Volume Radical: Sickness (bìng) 癉 Kangxi Stroke Count: 17 Page 780, Entry 41 Pronounced dan (falling tone). Shuowen Jiezi (Explanation of Simple and Compound Characters): Fatigue illness. Book of Documents (Shangshu), chapter "Bi Ming": To manifest the good and be pained by the evil. Commentary: To illuminate those who do good, and to feel pained by those who do evil. Zuo Commentary (Zuo Zhuan), 19th year of Duke Xiang: Xun Yan had an abscess (danju). Note: Danju is a malignant sore. Sub-commentary: Dan is fatigue illness. It also refers to jaundice. History of the Former Han Dynasty (Qian Hanshu), Biography of Yan Zhu: In the south, it is hot and humid; approaching summer, there is fever (danre). Note: Shigu says dan is jaundice. Pronounced dan (level tone). Also written as the variant form (dan). Sometimes written in the variant form. Book of Odes (Shijing), Greater Odes (Daya): The common people are all exhausted. Commentary: Dan means illness. Explanation of Texts (Shiwen): Dan, originally also written as (dan). Shen’s edition writes it as. Pronounced duo (falling tone). The meaning is the same. Erya, chapter "Explanation of Words" (Shi Gu): Dan means fatigue. Explanation of Texts (Shiwen): Pronounced duo (falling tone). Guangya (Expanded Glossaries): Dan means bitterness. Explanation of Texts (Shiwen): Pronounced duo (falling tone). Pronounced duo (rising tone). Guangyun (Broad Rhymes): Fatigue. Anger. Zheng Yun (Correct Rhymes): Also written as (tan). Pronounced dan (level tone). Guangyun: Fire illness (huodan), an illness of young children. Jiyun (Collection of Rhymes): Fatigue illness. Records of the Grand Historian (Shiji), Biography of Master Cang: Wind illness (fengdan) affects the bladder, making it difficult to urinate, with red urine. Note: The correct meaning is that dan is pronounced dan (level tone). It means heat. Pao is the bladder. It says the wind-heat illness resides in the bladder. Treatise on Literature in the History of the Former Han Dynasty (Qian Hanshu Yiwenzhi): Forty volumes of prescriptions for twelve types of dan illness. Note: Shigu says dan is jaundice. Pronounced dan (level tone). Pronounced tan (level tone). Wind illness affecting the hands and feet. Pronounced tan (level tone). The meaning is the same. Pronounced dan (rising tone). Wind illness. Zhang Heng, "Eastern Capital Rhapsody" (Dongjing Fu): Flying gravel scatters like rain; the strong and difficult ones all perish. Note: Dan means difficult. It says that ghosts that are strong and difficult are all put to death. Explanation of Texts (Shiwen): Pronounced dan (rising tone).