I failed to remember the meaning for the word 蕴含 yùnhán. Is any mnemonic or story or etymological hints to remember 蕴?
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蘊含 is a rather difficult word. How did you chance upon this?– L ParkerApr 22, 2021 at 11:48
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glyph-origin questions should be asked one question at a time, unless the characters are actually related.– dROOOzeApr 22, 2021 at 11:52
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Parker it is from the secondary school text book or workbook or from notes. It is part of my flashcard deck. Let me find and copy the Context– user27485Apr 22, 2021 at 12:07
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1If it makes you feel any better - it's still pronounced "wen" in some dialects.– Mou某 ♦Apr 22, 2021 at 14:53
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1@user27485 What I meant was: there are often jokes about dialect speakers being uncouth and backwaterish because their pronunciation is "unstandard." But the fact that a mnemonic is needed to remember the reading "yun" and that some topolects still pronounce it "wen", speaks more to the artificiality of Standard Mandarin rather than anything else.– Mou某 ♦Apr 22, 2021 at 17:14
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蕴 means accumulate.
蕴 is merely a phonetic-semantic character comprising plants 艸 and 缊 which provides sound. 缊 is an obsolete character that means "tangled strings". 缊 itself is silk and sound component 𥁕 meaning kindness (giving a bowl 皿 of food to a prisoner 囚). None of these characters contribute any meaning to the definition of 蕴.
If you want a sort of mnemonic, I'd use 蕰 instead. 蕰 is one of a variant forms for 蕴. Mnemonics are more difficult to think of if the sound component 缊 isn't a common character. But with 温 (warm) being a more common character, you can think of it as gathering/accumulating vegetables 艸 to keep them warm before eating. Just remember that the standard form is 蕴 and not 蕰.
