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 <WL>隐(F隱) [yǐn] hidden; 隐约 yǐnyuē faint/indistinct@@  [yìn] [wěn] cf. 隱
-From 阝(阜 fù) ‘hill’. In the simple form 隐 the right side is 急 jí ‘urgent’. In the full form 隱 the right side is 爫 over 工 over 彐 over 心 (xīn) ‘heart’. An obsolete character made of 爫 two hands and 工 (gōng) ‘work’, pronounced yǐn, was phonetic.
+The full form 隱(􂣛) combines 阝(阜 fù) ‘hill’, and 㥯(􁲸) yǐn ‘cautious/worried’ (phonetic); in the simple form 隐 the phonetic is abbreviated to look like 急 jí ‘urgent’.
 	The basic meaning is to retire, go into seclusion. Whether one does so because the 心 heart is content, or in mourning, seems to be a matter of interpretation. The 阝(阜) hills presumably would be the place where one goes to hide away. The simple form may be reinterpreted: to hide out of an 急 urgent need.
- 	In 稳(穩) wěn ‘steady’, which has undergone the same simplification, the right hand component was simply phonetic (see also 瘾 yǐn ‘addiction’).
+	Compare: 稳(穩) wěn ‘steady’ (simplified the same way); 瘾(癮) yǐn ‘addiction.
+	Compare: 急(􁳳㤂) jí ‘urgent’.
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