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蒙蒙

Mandarin · pinyin méng méng

drizzle (of rain or snow)

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蒙: méng · cover; ignorant; suffer; Mongolia; hexagram ䷃

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2–2 · meng2 meng2

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verb · Etymology 1

(literary) to burgeon; to spring up

adj · Etymology 1

(literary) covering densely; (of rain or snow) drizzling
(literary) dark; gloomy

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