絪

• Textile/Material: Thick woven fabrics, specifically matting or coverlets.
• Atmospheric/Vaporous: Clouds, mist, or swirling vapors.

In the compound 絪氳 (yīnyūn), frequently found in philosophical and cosmological texts, the term describes the primordial intermingling of //qi// before the differentiation of the world; here it denotes a state of dense, swirling, or chaotic vapor rather than a meteorological phenomenon.

• Semantic variant: U+6C24
• Simplified variant: U+2C621

The appearance of the water radical (水) in some versions reinforces the atmospheric/vaporous reading over the textile one.

If this glyph appears alone in a philosophical text, consider whether the author is attributing a "woven" or tangible density to an atmospheric or spiritual force.