Wei Collection, Lower Volume Radical: Meat (ròu) 膿 Kangxi Dictionary Stroke Count: 19 Page 996, Entry 04 Guangyun (Expanded Rhymes), Jiyun (Collected Rhymes), Yunhui (Collection of Rhymes): Pronounced nóng. Shuowen (Explaining Graphs and Analyzing Characters): Swollen blood. Yupian (Jade Chapters): The bursting of a carbuncle or abscess. Records of the Grand Historian (Shiji), Biography of Physician Cang Gong: Eight days later, he vomited pus. Also, Explanation of Names (Shiming): Pus means thick, as the fluid is dense and thick. Cao Zhi, Seven Exhortations (Qi Qi): Plump and fat with fleshy, heavy skin. Also, to rot or decompose. Essential Techniques for the Welfare of the People (Qimin Yaoshu): When the rice seedlings are seven or eight inches tall, the old weeds grow again. Use a sickle soaked in water to cut them, and the weeds will all rot and die.