yūn

to take a hint

Evolution

㚃 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
Definitions

 

yūn

to take a hint; a group of Chinese characters the construction of which suggests the meaning, the fate; good luck or bad are in the pot; don't expose; or leak out

Miscellaneous

Strokes

12

Unicode

U+3683

Shuowen

“,壹也。从凶,从壺。不得泄凶也。《易》曰:‘天地壹。’段玉裁注:“不得泄也者,謂元氣渾然,吉凶未分,故其字从吉凶在壺中。會意。”


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