云

See also 雲

Translingual

Stroke order

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".

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)

Derived terms

• 雲, 芸, 妘, 抎, 沄, 夽, 囩

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

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Cantonese

Hanzi

云 (jyutping wan4, Yale wan4)

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Japanese

Kanji

云

Readings

• On: うん (un)
• Kun: いう (iu)

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Korean

Hanja

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

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Mandarin

Pronunciation

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Noun

云 (simplified, Pinyin yún, traditional 雲)

1. (Beginning Mandarin) a cloud

Verb

云 (traditional and simplified, Pinyin yún)

1. (literary) to say; to speak

Compounds

• 云霭
• 云鬓
• 云彩
• 云层
• 云豆
• 云端
• 云朵
• 云贵
• 云海
• 云集
• 云谲波诡
• 云锣
• 云母
• 云泥之别
• 云起龙骧, 云起龙襄
• 云气
• 云雀
• 云散
• 云山雾罩
• 云梯
• 云天
• 云雾
• 云霞
• 云消雾散
• 云霄
• 云烟
• 云涌
• 云游
• 云雨
• 云云
• 云蒸霞蔚

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Vietnamese

Han character

云 (vân)