夤

Core senses include "distant," "remote," or "deep." In practice, this typically denotes:

• Internal Depth: Areas deep within the body, such as internal organs or deep-seated tissues.
• Physical Extremities: The furthest reaches of a limb or a bodily boundary.

Do not confuse with 胤 (yìn), which refers to lineage and descendants.

Fanqie reading: 翼眞; Tang-period reading: in.

The glyph combines the "meat/body" radical (肉, written as 月) with 艮. The component 艮 likely functions as a phonetic that may also carry a secondary semantic sense of a "boundary" or "limit," reinforcing the concept of the deepest or furthest point of the body.

• Contextual Application: When the surrounding text involves anatomy, medicine, or physical description (e.g., blood, bone, organs), treat 夤 as "deep" or "internal."
• Anomalies: While the radical suggests a bodily meaning, if the glyph appears in a strictly geographical context (mountains, roads, distances), it may be functioning as a rare variant for general remoteness, though this is atypical.