澐
billows
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Readings
On'yomi
- ウン
Kun'yomi
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Meaning
澐 centers on large, rolling waves or billows of water, evoking a sense of powerful, surging motion on the surface of a body of water.
Study
Etymology
澐 combines the water radical 氵 with 雲 (cloud), likely as a phono-semantic compound where 雲 provides the sound ウン and the idea of billowing, cloud-like masses of water.
Meaning mnemonic
Water 氵 combined with cloud 雲 suggests clouds of water—imagine towering, rolling clouds reflected in the sea, turning into great billows.
Reading mnemonic
For ウン, picture a huge wave rising with a deep 'oon' sound as it crashes: oon -> ウン, like the billows surging forward.