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风云

fēng yún

HSK 3.0 level 7-9 2-character word Traditional 風雲

风云 (fēng yún) means "weather; unstable situation". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was not on the old six-level HSK list.

What 风云 means

1. weather
2. unstable situation

The characters in 风云

• 风fēngwind; news; style
• 云yún(classical) to say

Example sentences

• 天空风云骤起。
  Tiānkōng fēngyún zhòu qǐ.
  The sky looks angry.
• 国际政治风云变幻。
  World politics are constantly changing.

Words starting with 风云

• 风云人物fēng yún rén wùthe man (or woman) of the moment (idiom); influential figure
• 风云变幻fēng yún biàn huànchangeable situation (idiom)

Words containing 风云

• 叱咤风云chì zhà fēng yúnlit. to rebuke Heaven and Earth (idiom); fig. shaking the whole world; all-powerful
• 天有不测风云，人有旦夕祸福tiān yǒu bù cè fēng yún , rén yǒu dàn xī huò fúfortune as unpredictable as the weather, every day may bring fortune or calamity (idiom)…

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