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云

yún

HSK 3 Character

What 云 means

1. (classical) to say

Other readings

云 is 多音字 — it is read more than one way, and the reading changes the meaning.

• yúncloud
• Yúnsurname Yun; short name for Yunnan {云南|Yún nán}

Example sentences

• 那晚多云。
  It was cloudy that night.
• 今天多云。
  It's cloudy today.
• 开始多云了。
  Kāishǐ duōyún le.
  It's getting cloudy.
• 昨天是多云。
  Zuótiān shì duōyún.
  It was cloudy yesterday.
• 云开见天日。
  The clouds opened and the sun shone through.
• 云越来越黑。
  The clouds are getting darker.

Words starting with 云

• 云云yún yúnand so on; so and so; many and confused
• 云集yún jíto gather (in a crowd); to converge; to swarm
• 云彩yún cai(colloquial) cloud
• 云雾yún wùclouds and mist
• 云南省Yún nán ShěngYunnan Province, capital Kunming 昆明市
• 云层yún céngthe clouds; cloud layer; cloud bank
• 云海yún hǎisea of clouds
• 云霄yún xiāo(the) skies
• 云朵yún duǒa cloud
• 云端yún duānhigh in the clouds; (computing) the cloud
• 云雨yún yǔlit. cloud and rain; fig. sexual intercourse
• 云游yún yóuto wander (typically of an errant priest)
• 云烟yún yānmist; clouds; smoke
• 云里雾里yún lǐ wù lǐamidst the clouds and mist; (fig.) mystified; puzzled
• 云雀yún què(bird species of China) Eurasian skylark (Alauda arvensis)
• 云杉yún shānspruce
• 云室yún shìcloud chamber (physics)
• 云林Yún línYunlin county in Taiwan
• 云母yún mǔmica
• 云气yún qìmist
• 云沙yún shāmuscovite, mica (used in TCM)
• 云液yún yèmuscovite, mica (used in TCM)
• 云盘yún pán(computing) cloud drive; cloud storage service
• 云石yún shímarble

Words containing 云

• 白云bái yúnwhite cloud
• 风云fēng yúnweather; unstable situation
• 乌云wū yúnblack cloud
• 凌云líng yún(lit. and fig.) towering; lofty; high
• 青云qīng yúnclear sky; fig. high official position; noble
• 彩云cǎi yúnrosy clouds
• 烟消云散yān xiāo yún sàn(idiom) to vanish like smoke in thin air; to disappear
• 不知所云bù zhī suǒ yúnto not know what sb is driving at; to be unintelligible
• 陈云Chén YúnChen Yun (1905-1995), communist leader and economist
• 浮云fú yúnfloating clouds; fleeting; transient
• 多云duō yún(meteorology) cloudy
• 星云xīng yúnnebula
• 风云人物fēng yún rén wùthe man (or woman) of the moment (idiom); influential figure
• 赵云Zhào YúnZhao Yun (-229), general of Shu in Romance of the Three Kingdoms
• 风起云涌fēng qǐ yún yǒngto surge like a gathering storm (idiom); to grow by leaps and bounds
• 阴云yīn yúndark cloud
• 马云Mǎ YúnMa Yun (1964-), aka Jack Ma, Chinese billionaire businessman, co-founder of Alibaba 阿里巴巴
• 行云流水xíng yún liú shuǐlit. moving clouds and flowing water (idiom); fig. very natural and flowing style of…
• 过眼云烟guò yǎn yún yānephemeral (idiom)
• 祥云xiáng yúnmagic cloud
• 人云亦云rén yún yì yúnto say what everyone says (idiom); to conform to what one perceives to be the majority…
• 疑云yí yúna haze of doubts and suspicions
• 万里无云wàn lǐ wú yúncloudless
• 叱咤风云chì zhà fēng yúnlit. to rebuke Heaven and Earth (idiom); fig. shaking the whole world; all-powerful

Characters that look like 云

Easy to confuse on sight. Compare them side by side once and the pair stops costing you.

• 么mesuffix, used to form interrogative 什么
• 世shìlife; age; generation
• 击jīto hit; to strike; to break

Sounds the same

Read yún, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 匀even; well-distributed; uniform
• 芸common rue (Ruta graveolens)…
• 昀sun light; used in personal name
• 筠skin of bamboo
• 纭confused; numerous
• 耘to weed
• 郧name of a feudal state
• 鋆gold
• 澐river waves
• 涢(name of a river in Hebei)
• 𤈶(yellow color)
• 畇reclaimed land