Wu Collection, Middle Volume Radical: Sickness (bìng) Lin Kangxi Stroke Count: 18 Page 781, Entry 36 According to the Extensive Rhymes (Guangyun), pronounced lin. According to the Collected Rhymes (Jiyun), pronounced lin, with the sound of lin. According to the Extensive Rhymes (Guangyun), the substance of grain. According to the Collected Rhymes (Jiyun), a cold-induced illness. Also, according to the Collected Rhymes (Jiyun), pronounced qin. The meaning is the same. It was originally written as lin. Also pronounced bing. It means illness.