tún
noun #81,317

Meanings

  1. 1 young plant sprout
  2. 2 (literary) dull; ignorant

Examples

Tún
Green sprouts pushed up through the spring soil.
Gǔshū yòng tún
The old book uses this character to describe a dull, unknowing state.

Tips

usage
is a rare literary character. Its plant sense is a fresh green sprout; in classical philosophy it also describes a dull, untutored state of mind, as in 庄子.

Components

radical
cǎo
grass; plant
is the grass radical in top form. It marks the plant sense: a tender new sprout breaking through the soil.
phonetic
tún
to store; sprout
supplies the sound tún, matching its own reading. It originally pictured a sprout struggling out of the ground, so it also reinforces the meaning here.

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