缊 (yùn) · old or tangled silk floss; coarse hemp padding for…

Meanings

1 old or tangled silk floss; coarse hemp padding for clothes
2 deep; obscure

Characters

缊

yùn

old silk floss; hemp padding (classical)

Examples

HSK 7-9

他穿着破旧的棉袍，也不觉得羞愧。

Tā chuān zhe pòjiù de miánpáo, yě bù juéde xiūkuì.

Wearing a robe padded with old hemp, he did not feel ashamed before others.

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history

缊 classically means old tangled silk floss or coarse hemp padding (as in 缊袍, a poor man's padded robe), and by extension 'deep, obscure'. A separate reading yūn is used in 氤氲-type words for swirling mist. Not used independently today; built on the silk radical 纟.

register

Classical and literary only. 缊 appears in old prose and fixed compounds, not in everyday speech.