Chinese Character Wiki
云

yún

clouds

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

Components
上 meaning component

上  Meaning component

shàng, shǎng

  

up

◎ iconic component

◎  Iconic component

  

characterless component

Depicts a swirl of clouds.

Evolution

云 Oracle script (~1250-1000 BC)

Oracle script

(~1250-1000 BC)
云 Bronze script Late Spring and Autumn (~500 BC)

Bronze script

Late Spring and Autumn (~500 BC)
云 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
云 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
云 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

云  

yún

(classical) to say

云 (雲) 

yún

clouds; Yunnan province; cloud; CL:朵[duǒ]

云 (雲) 

Yún

surname Yun; abbr. for Yunnan Province 雲南省|云南省[Yún​nán​Shěng]

Most common words with 云
Freq.
Word
Meaning

云

cloud

风云

weather

云南

Yunnan province in southwest China, bordering on Vietnam, Laos and Myanmar, abbr. 滇[diān] or 雲|云, capital Kunming 昆明

多云

cloudy (meteorology)

云霄

Yunxiao county in Zhangzhou 漳州[Zhāng​zhōu], Fujian

Component uses

Meaning component in 3 characters (2 verified)

雲 陰 昙

Sound component in 13 characters (6 verified)

运 雲 陰 旬 匀 勻 魂 坛 芸 酝 耘 紜 纭

Simplified component in 3 characters (3 verified)

动 层 尝

Unknown component in 2 characters (1 verified)

藝 侌

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

雲

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。”


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