yún
clouds
Phonosemantic compound. 雨 represents the meaning and 云 represents the sound.
Evolution
Oracle script
(~1250-1000 BC)
Bronze script
Late Spring and Autumn (~500 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 雲
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
cloud | ||
weather | ||
Yunnan province in southwest China, bordering on Vietnam, Laos and Myanmar, abbr. 滇[diān] or 雲|云, capital Kunming 昆明 | ||
cloudy (meteorology) | ||
Yunxiao county in Zhangzhou 漳州[Zhāngzhōu], Fujian |
Component uses
Meaning component in 1 character (0 verified)
Sound component in 1 character (0 verified)
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*[ɢ]ʷə[n] | hjun | yún | cloud |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 14.4322% of movies
1653rd most common character in movies
692nd most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 12 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+96F2 |
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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