云

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See also 雲

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[edit] Translingual

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[edit] Etymology

Pictogram (象形); originally a stylized picture of clouds. The character was subsequently borrowed for a homophonous word meaning "say" and the original meaning came to be represented by 雲, through the addition of the 雨 ("rain") component. The simplified form eliminates this later addition and uses 云 for both "say" and "cloud".

[edit] Han character

云 (radical 7 二+2, 4 strokes, cangjie input 一一戈 (MMI), four-corner 10731, composition ⿱二厶)

  1. say, speak
  2. cloud, clouds (simplified form of 雲)

[edit] Derived terms

[edit] References

  • KangXi: page 86, character 8
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 254
  • Dae Jaweon: page 178, character 1
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 384, character 2
  • Unihan data for U+4E91

[edit] Cantonese

[edit] Hanzi

云 (jyutping wan4, Yale wan4)

[edit] Japanese

[edit] Kanji

云

[edit] Readings

[edit] Korean

[edit] Hanja

云 (hangeul 운, revised un, McCune-Reischauer un)

[edit] Mandarin

[edit] Pronunciation

[edit] Noun

云 (simplified, Pinyin yún, traditional 雲)

  1. (Beginning Mandarin) a cloud

[edit] Verb

云 (traditional and simplified, Pinyin yún)

  1. (literary) to say; to speak

[edit] Compounds

[edit] Vietnamese

[edit] Han character

云 (vân)

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