(yún)

Cloud

How 雲 is written

Strokes
12
Radical
— rain
Traditional
Simplified

Components

Common words using 雲

多雲 duōyún
cloudy (meteorology)
浮雲 fúyún
floating clouds; fleeting; transient
白雲 báiyún
Baiyun district of Guiyang city 貴陽市|贵阳市[Gui4 yang2 shi4], Guizhou; Baiyun district of Guangzhou city 廣州市|广州市[Guang3 zhou1 shi4], Guangdong
趙雲 zhàoyún
Zhao Yun (-229), general of Shu in Romance of the Three Kingdoms
雲南 yúnnán
Yunnan province in southwest China, bordering on Vietnam, Laos and Myanmar, abbr. 滇[dian1] or 雲|云, capital Kunming 昆明
風雲 fēngyún
Fung Wan (comic book series)
九霄雲外 jiǔxiāoyúnwài
beyond the topmost clouds (idiom); unimaginably far away
密雲 mìyún
Miyun town and county in Beijing
彩雲 cǎiyún
rosy clouds; CL:朵[duo3]
星雲 xīngyún
nebula
烏雲 wūyún
black cloud
煙消雲散 yānxiāoyúnsàn
to vanish like smoke in thin air; to disappear

雲 in a sentence

天上的白雲好像棉花糖。

Tiānshàng de báiyún hǎoxiàng miánhuātáng.

“The white clouds in the sky look like cotton candy.”

How common is 雲?

雲 is the 691st most frequent character in written Chinese. Characters up to this rank account for about 82.5% of all running text.

Characters that appear with 雲

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