Wu Collection, Middle Volume Radical: Sickness (bìng) Word: fei Kangxi Stroke Count: 17 Page 780, Entry 40 Pronounced fei (falling tone) Shuowen Jiezi (Dictionary of Explaining Graphs and Analyzing Characters): A chronic illness. Zengyun (Expanded Rhymes): An old disease from which one cannot recover and can no longer be used. Commonly written as fei.