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煴

Character · VerbTraditional熅

same as 'iron' (clothes)

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Meanings

1 sense · 3 examples
1.

verb

to iron (clothes); to press with a hot iron

archaic

Archaic variant of 熨, used in classical texts to describe the process of smoothing fabric with heat.

Yùn煴
yī衣
shǐ使
píng平
 ，
nǎi乃
kě可
zhuó着
shēn身
 。

Iron the clothes to make them smooth, then they can be worn.

Yǐ以
huǒ火
yùn煴
bó帛
 ，
qù去
qí其
zhě褶
zhòu皱
 。

Use fire to iron the silk, removing its wrinkles.

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Gǔ古
zhī之
yùn煴
fǎ法
 ，
yǐ以
rè热
tiě铁
press
zhīp
 r
 e
 s
 s
 
 之
 。

The ancient method of ironing involved pressing with hot iron.