<p>蕴 means accumulate.</p>
<p>蕴 is merely a phonetic-semantic character comprising plants 艸 and 缊 which provides sound. 缊 is an obsolete character that means &quot;tangled strings&quot;. 缊 itself is silk and sound component  meaning kindness (giving a bowl 皿 of food to a prisoner 囚). None of these characters contribute any meaning to the definition of 蕴.</p>
<p>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.</p>
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Fishuman
<p>I failed to remember the meaning for the word 蕴含 yùnhán. Is any mnemonic or story or etymological hints to remember 蕴?</p>

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2021-04-22T11:48:41.830Z
蘊含 is a rather difficult word. How did you chance upon this?
L Parker
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2021-04-22T11:52:55.287Z
[tag:glyph-origin] questions should be asked one question at a time, unless the characters are actually related.
dROOOze
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2021-04-22T12:07:34.563Z
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
user27485
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2021-04-22T12:13:29.463Z
dROOOze, agree with you. I have updated the question to one word 蕴. I will keep a separate question for 含 as these two characters glyph origins are completely different
user27485
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2021-04-22T14:53:14.053Z
If it makes you feel any better - it's still pronounced "*wen*" in some dialects.
Mou某
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2021-04-22T15:20:55.560Z
Mou thanks. But at this moment not looking at other dialects.
user27485
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@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.
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Glyph origin or any mnemonic for 蕴?
# Glyph origin or any mnemonic for 蕴?

(Asked by: username_0 on 2021-04-22)

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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> **Comments:**
> **username_1**: 蘊含 is a rather difficult word. How did you chance upon this?  
> **username_2**: [tag:glyph-origin] questions should be asked one question at a time, unless the characters are actually related.  
> **username_0**: 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  
> **username_0**: dROOOze, agree with you. I have updated the question to one word 蕴. I will keep a separate question for 含 as these two characters glyph origins are completely different  
> **username_3**: If it makes you feel any better - it's still pronounced "*wen*" in some dialects.  
> **username_0**: Mou thanks. But at this moment not looking at other dialects.  
> **username_3**: @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.  

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## 1 answers

### Answer by username_4 on 2021-04-22. Score: 1 | Accepted answer

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 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.

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