Wu Collection, Middle Volume Radical: Sickness (bìng) 痂 Kangxi Stroke Count: 10 Page 772, Entry 01 Tang Rhyme (Tang Yun): Pronounced jia Collection of Rhymes (Jiyun), Rhyme Compilation (Yunhui): Pronounced jia Explication of Written Characters (Shuowen): A dried sore. Xu says: Nowadays refers to the dry, shed skin formed over a healing wound as a scab. Correction of Common Errors (Zhengzitong): The covering of a sore. History of the Southern Dynasties (Nan Shi), Biography of Liu Muzhi: His son Yong, while serving as a governor, had a peculiar craving for eating scabs from sores.