yún
clouds
Depicts a swirl of clouds up (上) in the sky.
Components
Evolution

Oracle script
(~1250-1000 BC)
Bronze script
Late Spring and Autumn (~500 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 云
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
---|---|---|
cloud | ||
weather | ||
Yunnan province in southwest China, bordering on Vietnam, Laos and Myanmar, abbr. 滇[diān] or 雲|云, capital Kunming 昆明 | ||
cloudy (meteorology) | ||
Yunxiao county in Zhangzhou 漳州[Zhāngzhōu], Fujian |
Component uses
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[ɢ]ʷə[r] | hjun | yún | say |
Statistics
HSK level 2
Appears in 14.4322% of movies
1653rd most common character in movies
692nd most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 4 |
Traditional | |
Unicode | U+4E91 |
Shuowen | “雲,山川气也。从雨,云象雲回轉形。云,古文省雨。云說文古文;2,亦古文雲。” |
Sources
季旭昇《說文新證》p.819
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