TSUMUGU · B2 (est.) · 字
鬱
鬱 ＝ 林
ㄩˋ · yù
adj/verb — lush, dense; gloomy, pent-up
字源 FORM — what the parts do
林 at the top is the wood — 木叢生也, trees crowding thick. The dense growth is the root sense: 鬱鬱, lush and overgrown. Where the wood is so thick no light gets through, the feeling follows — pent-up, shut-in, heavy: 憂鬱, 鬱悶.
故事 STORY — a scene to remember it by
林（林）子密到透不進一絲光，氣都悶在裡頭出不來——鬱。
The wood (林) grows so thick no light gets through, the air shut in with no way out — pent-up.
字源記憶法
意 · Meanings
(本義)鬱鬱、蔥鬱— lush, densely overgrown
→憂鬱、鬱悶— gloomy, depressed, pent-up常用
⇒鬱結— bottled up — knotted inside
(本義) original meaning · → ⇒ each arrow = one more step of extension