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Mandarin · pinyin yún yún

and so on
so and so
many and confused

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云: yún · say, speak; clouds

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2–2 · yun2 yun2

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(literary, formal) and so on; and so forth; et cetera (used at the end of a quotation, implying that some words of the same purport are left out)

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