![]() Dùn ("dull confused") is written as either dùn ( 沌 'dull confused stupid') or dūn ( 敦 'thick solid generous earnest honest sincere'). These two are interchangeable graphic variants read as hún ( 混 'muddy dirty filthy' ) and hùn 渾 "nebulous stupid" ( hùndùn 渾沌). ![]() Hùn "chaos muddled confused" is written either hùn ( 混 'abundantly flowing turbid water torrent mix up/in confuse thoughtless senseless') or hún ( 渾 'sound of running water muddy muddled confused dull stupid'). While hùndùn "primordial chaos" is usually written as 混沌 in contemporary vernacular, it is also written as 渾沌-as in the Daoist classic Zhuangzi-or 渾敦 -as in the Zuozhuan. Hundun 混沌 was semantically extended from a mythic "primordial chaos nebulous state of the universe before heaven and earth separated" to mean "unintelligible chaotic messy mentally dense innocent as a child". 'muddled confusion') is both a "legendary faceless being" in Chinese mythology and the "primordial and central chaos" in Chinese cosmogony, comparable with the world egg. Hundun ( Chinese: 混沌 pinyin: Hùndùn Wade–Giles: Hun-tun lit.
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