Definitions

yùn used in 鄆城|郓城[yùn chéng] (the name of a place in Shandong)

Etymology phono-semantic

town

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The character is a standard phono-semantic compound. The right-side radical immediately signifies a proper noun for a city, territory, or geographical location, while the left-side component acts as the phonetic indicator. In its traditional form , the phonetic is the unsimplified character placed on the left, with the same right-side radical. The character functions almost exclusively as a place name: historically, it denoted an ancient city in the Lu State during the Spring and Autumn period, and in modern usage, it is most notably the name of Yuncheng County in Shandong province.

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Bronze Late Warring States (~250 BC)
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Seal Shuowen (~100 AD)
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