Chinese symbol for “skies”
云霄
yún xiāo
Traditional: 雲霄
(the) skies
The closest CC-CEDICT match for skies is 云霄 (yún xiāo), defined as: (the) skies.
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Other Chinese words for “skies”
Related words
Other words that share a character with 云霄.
| 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 |
| 云霄飞车 (雲霄飛車) | yún xiāo fēi chē | roller coaster |
| 九霄云外 (九霄雲外) | jiǔ xiāo yún wài | beyond the topmost clouds (idiom); unimaginably far away |
See also: Japanese symbol for “skies”.
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.