云 — Chinese character
云
yún
cloud; to say, to speak
- Pinyin
- yún
- Radical
- 7 ⼆ (Two)
- Strokes
- 4
- Components
- 二 厶
- Formation
- pictographic — A cloud
- Traditional
- 雲
- Japanese
- 云 as a kanji
Common words with 云
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 风云 (風雲) | fēng yún | weather; unstable situation |
| 白云 (白雲) | bái yún | white cloud |
| 云端 (雲端) | yún duān | high in the clouds; (computing) the cloud |
| 云集 (雲集) | yún jí | to gather (in a crowd); to converge |
| 星云 (星雲) | xīng yún | nebula |
| 乌云 (烏雲) | wū yún | black cloud |
| 云盘 (雲盤) | yún pán | (computing) cloud drive; cloud storage service |
| 云层 (雲層) | yún céng | the clouds; cloud layer |
| 云霄 (雲霄) | yún xiāo | (the) skies |
| 云云 | yún yún | and so on; so and so |
| 云彩 (雲彩) | yún cai | (coll.) cloud; measure word: 朵 (duǒ) |
| 风云人物 (風雲人物) | fēng yún rén wù | the man (or woman) of the moment (idiom); influential figure |
English words written with 云
云 in the Chinese classics
Occurrences: Tao Te Ching 2 · Analects 15 · Mencius 37 · Zhuangzi 5 · Great Learning 11 · Doctrine of the Mean 5
- Tao Te Ching Chapter 57
- Tao Te Ching Chapter 78
- Analects 1.15
- Analects 2.21
- Analects 7.18
- Analects 7.33
- Analects 8.3
- Analects 9.6
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