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yún

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yún Meaning

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Pīnyīn Pronunciation
yún | yun2
English translation
(classical) to say
cloud
CL: duǒ [duǒ]
surname Yun
abbr. for Yunnan Province 雲南省
>云南省 Yún nán Shěng [Yún nán Shěng]
cloud; to say, to speak

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About yún

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Number of strokes

4

Traditional form

yún

Contains the radical

èr

Part of speech

Place name / 地名 dì míng Dìmíng

Learning hint

A cloud

Etymology of yún

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Type

pictographic

Positional decomposition

二厶

Explanation

Pictograph of clouds.

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Example sentences using yún

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zài xià 之前 zhī qián , Hēi yún 使 shǐ 天空 tiānkōng 变得 biàn de 黑暗 hēi àn le .

Thick clouds darkened the sky before the rain fell.

天上 tiān shàng yǒu 这么 zhè me duō de huī yún , kān 今天 jīntiān yāo xià .

There are so many grey clouds I think it will rain today.

zài duō yún de 天上 tiān shàng , zhǐ Néng 看到孤零零 gū líng líng de 一颗星星 xīng xing .

In that cloudy sky only one lone star could be seen.

月亮 yuèliang Cóng yún 后面 hòumian zuàn 出来 chū lái ,照出 le 苍白 cāngbái de 面孔 miàn kǒng .

The moon drifted from behind the clouds and exposed the paled face.

附近 fùjìn 微云 xíng chuàn 鼓鼓囊囊 gǔ gu nāng nāng de xiǎo 香肠 xiāngcháng .

There was a string of tiny clouds shaped like miniature plump sausages.

Words with yún

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FrequencySimplifiedMeaningTraditional
yún cloud yún
风云 fēng yún weather風雲
云南 Yún nán Yunnan province in southwest China, bordering on Vietnam, Laos and Myanmar, abbr. diān [diān] or yún | yún , capital Kunming 昆明 Kūn míng 雲南
多云 duō yún cloudy (meteorology)多雲
云霄 Yún xiāo Yunxiao county in Zhangzhou 漳州 Zhāng zhōu [Zhāng​zhōu], Fujian雲霄
乌云 wū yún black cloud烏雲
白云 Bái yún Baiyun district of Guiyang city 貴陽市|贵阳市 Guì yáng shì [Guì​yáng​shì], Guizhou白雲
浮云 fú yún fleeting浮雲
云层 yún céng the clouds雲層
烟消云散 yān xiāo yún sàn to disappear煙消雲散
云集 yún jí to converge雲集
云彩 yún cai (coll.) cloud雲彩
云南省 Yún nán Shěng Yunnan Province in southwest China, bordering on Vietnam, Laos and Myanmar, abbr. diān [Diān] or yún | yún [Yún], capital Kunming 昆明 Kūn míng [Kūn​míng]雲南省
星云 xīng yún nebula星雲
云梯 yún tī escalade雲梯
不知所云 bù zhī suǒ yún to be unintelligible不知所云 bù zhī suǒ yún
云雀 yún què (bird species of China) Eurasian skylark (Alauda arvensis)雲雀
云端 yún duān fig. high in the clouds雲端
翻云覆雨 fān yún fù yǔ to make love翻雲覆雨
过眼云烟 guò yǎn yún yān ephemeral (idiom)過眼雲煙
疑云 yí yún a haze of doubts and suspicions疑雲
风云人物 fēng yún rén wù influential figure風雲人物
平步青云 píng bù qīng yún to rapidly go up in the world平步青雲
凌云 Líng yún Lingyun county in Baise 百色 Bǎi sè [Bǎi​sè], Guangxi凌雲

yún Decomposition & Compounds

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yún Decomposition

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yún Compounds

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  • yún
    • huì
    • dòng
    • cháng
      • cháng , 鲿 cháng
      • , ,
    • yún
      • tán
        • tán
      • yún , yīn , tán , , , yún , , , , , ,
    • yùn , hún , céng , tán , yùn , yún , yún , tán , yún , chuán , , dài , yùn , yún , zhuǎn , , , , , , , , , , , yún ,
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