Chinese symbol for “clouds”
云层
yún céng
Traditional: 雲層
the clouds; cloud layer; cloud bank
The closest CC-CEDICT match for clouds is 云层 (yún céng), defined as: the clouds; cloud layer; cloud bank.
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Other Chinese words for “clouds”
Related words
Other words that share a character with 云层.
| 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 |
| 基层 (基層) | jī céng | basic level; grassroots unit |
| 层面 (層面) | céng miàn | aspect; facet; level (political, psychological, spiritual etc) |
Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.