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Pīnyīn Pronunciation
yún | yun2
English translation
cloud; to say, to speak

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About 雲 yún

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Number of strokes

12

Traditional form

雲 yún

Contains the radical

雨 yǔ

Part of speech

Status morpheme / 状态语素 Zhuàngtài yǔsù

Learning hint

Rain 雨 yǔ falling from a cloud 云 yún

Etymology of 雲 yún

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Type

ideographic

Positional decomposition

⿱雨云

Explanation

Pictograph of clouds.

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Words with 雲 yún

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FrequencySimplifiedMeaningTraditional
云 yún cloud雲 yún
风云 fēng yún weather風雲
云南 Yún nán Yunnan province in southwest China, bordering on Vietnam, Laos and Myanmar, abbr. 滇 diān [diān] or 雲 yún |云 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. 滇 diān [Diān] or 雲 yún |云 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

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