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云 (yún): meaning and stroke order

云 (yún) means (classical) to say, cloud, CL:朵, surname Yun, abbr. for Yunnan Province 云南省.

云

Simplified
云
Traditional
云, 雲
Pinyin
yún

Stroke order of 云

云

  • yún (classical) to say
  • Yún surname Yun; abbr. for Yunnan Province 雲南省|云南省[Yun2 nan2 Sheng3]
  • yún cloud; CL:朵[duo3]
  • 4 strokes
  • Traditional form: 雲

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 云

  1. yún
    • (classical) to say
  2. yún Traditional 雲
    • cloud
    • CL:朵[duo3]
  3. Yún Traditional 雲
    • surname Yun
    • abbr. for Yunnan Province 雲南省|云南省[Yun2 nan2 Sheng3]

Radical and structure

云
Radical 二 (Kangxi radical 7) · 4 strokes · 二 on top, 厶 below

Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan database. Structure: the shapes a character is written with (BabelStone IDS), not necessarily parts that carry meaning or sound.

Words with 云

云 in our stories

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  • 然而，他的生命并没有就此消失：他呼出的气变成了风和云，他的声音变成了雷。

    rán'ér tā de shēngmìng bìng méiyǒu jiùcǐ xiāoshī tā hūchū de qì biànchéng le fēng hé yún tā de shēngyīn biànchéng le léi

    Yet his life did not simply end there: the breath he exhaled became the wind and clouds, and his voice became thunder.

    From the story Pangu separates heaven and earth HSK 7–9 · Level 7

  • 袁守诚掐指一算：“明天辰时布云，巳时打雷，午时下雨，未时雨停，共三尺三寸零四十八点。”

    Yuán Shǒuchéng qiā zhǐ yí suàn míngtiān chénshí bù yún sìshí dǎléi wǔshí xiàyǔ wèishí yǔ tíng gòng sān chǐ sān cùn líng sìshíbā diǎn

    Yuan Shoucheng counted on his fingers: "Tomorrow clouds gather at the hour of the Dragon, thunder at the Snake, rain at the Horse, stopping at the Goat: three feet, three inches and forty-eight drops in all."

    From the story The Dragon King of the Jing River HSK 7–9 · Level 7

Stories using 云

Dictionary data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Stroke data: Hanzi Writer data, derived from Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License). Animation: Hanzi Writer (MIT licence). Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan (Unicode License v3).