Wu Collection, Middle Volume Radical: Sickness (bìng) Entry: 瘚 Kangxi stroke count: 15 Page 777, Entry 29 Tang Rhymes (Tangyun), Collected Rhymes (Jiyun), Dictionary of Rhymes (Yunhui), and Correct Rhymes (Zhengyun): Pronounced jue. Explanation from the Explaining Graphs and Analyzing Characters (Shuowen): The inversion of qi (vital energy). Broad Rhymes (Guangyun): Qi (vital energy) inversion. Extensive Elegant (Boya): Jue refers to an illness. Outer Commentary to the Han Poetry (Hanshi Waizhuan): Do not let the common people suffer from hunger and cold, and the illness of jue will not arise. Correct Meaning Dictionary (Zhengzitong): Also written in the variant form jue. Treatise on Jue in the Inner Canon (Neijing Jue Lun): When yang energy weakens below, it becomes cold jue; when yin energy weakens below, it becomes hot jue. The commentary states: Jue means inversion. The qi of the lower regions inverts upward, causing sudden dizziness and collapse. Mild cases gradually recover; severe cases do not recover. Both types of jue arise from the internal weakening of yin and yang energies. Collected Rhymes (Jiyun): Pronounced yue. The meaning is the same. Collected Rhymes (Jiyun): Sometimes written as a variant form jue.