Wu Collection, Middle Volume Radical: Sickness (bìng) Yong Kangxi strokes: 23 Page 783, Entry 01 Pronounced yong. Shuowen Jiezi (Explaining Single-component Characters and Analyzing Compound Characters): Swelling. Guangyun (Broad Rhymes): A carbuncle or boil. Shiming (Explanation of Names): Yong means to obstruct. It is when the vital energy is obstructed and knotted, wrapping up and eventually ulcerating. Zhengzitong (Comprehensive Dictionary of Characters): A malignant sore. There are various names such as the ci-yong, the red-spreading boil, the rabbit-bite, and the slow-walking sore. All are caused by the stagnation of blood and energy, resulting in the obstruction of the nutritive and defensive functions of the body. Book of the Later Han (Hou Hanshu), Treatise on Harmonics and Calendrical Astronomy: At the Beginning of Spring, the sundial shadow is eight feet two inches long. If the season arrives prematurely when it should not have, there will be many cases of carbuncles, ulcers, and swelling of the shins. Also a place name. Interchangeable with the Yong of Yong Province. Book of the Later Han (Hou Hanshu), Annals of Emperor Xian: The four commanderies west of the Yellow River in Liang Province were separated to form Yong Province. Note: These are Jincheng, Jiuquan, Dunhuang, and Zhangye. Also pronounced yong (rising tone). Strategies of the Warring States (Zhan Guo Ce): Although the leper has carbuncles and swelling and blisters. Explication of Texts (Shiwen): Yong is pronounced yong. Jiyun (Collection of Rhymes): Also written as the character for puffy. Also written as the character with the meat radical. Yunhui (Collection of Rhymes): Sometimes written as the character for swelling.