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Kanji Detail for 雲 - "cloud, cloud-like"

雲

  • Meaning

    雲 means "cloud, cloud-like."

    1. Cloud - Clouds floating in the sky.

    2. Cloud-like - A metaphor for high, abundant, excellent, or distant things.

  • Words using 雲

    • 暗雲 あんうん Listen dark clouds; threatening signs; ominous indications
    • 雲行き くもゆき Listen weather; look of the sky; situation
    • 青雲 せいうん Listen blue sky; erudition; detachment from the world

  • Four-character idioms with 雲

    • 雲散霧消 うんさんむしょう Listen vanishing like mist
    • 富貴浮雲 ふうきふうん Listen riches and honors are as fleeting as floating clouds; fortune and fame are here today, gone tomorrow
    • 巫山雲雨 ふざんうんう Listen sexual liaison
    • 暗雲低迷 あんうんていめい Listen gathering dark clouds; being under the shadow of
    • 月卿雲客 げっけいうんかく Listen court nobles and other courtiers allowed into the Imperial Palace
    • 朝雲暮雨 ちょううんぼう Listen sexual liaison; morning clouds and evening rain

  • Origin of 雲

    The rain radical 雨 over 云, which was itself the original picture of curling vapour and now lends the reading un. When 云 was borrowed away to mean "to say", the rain radical was added to keep the cloud.

    How to remember it: Curling vapour 云 with rain 雨 put back on top — the cloud, reclaimed.

    Sources: en.wiktionary.org · mojinavi.com

  • Tattoo check: 雲

    • Verified meaning: cloud, cloud-like
    • Official Jōyō kanji — a standard character every Japanese reader recognises
    • Used in real Japanese given names (read うん, くも)

    A single kanji rarely maps one-to-one onto an English word. Read the meanings and associations above as a set — a character that fits the dictionary definition can still carry a connotation you did not intend.

  • Name readings of 雲

    Given names 雲(うん)Listen 雲(くも)Listen

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  • Dictionary Citations

    The meaning above is based on the following sources:

    KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary

    cloud

    Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters

    clouds; Yunnan province

    CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary

    surname Yun; abbr. for Yunnan Province 雲南省|云南省[Yun2 nan2 Sheng3]

    Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data

    cloud; to say, to speak

    XSZD Xuéshēng Zìdiǎn (學生字典) - Student's Dictionary

    Moisture from the ground rises to very high places, meets cold air and condenses into tiny water droplets that float in the air. Also, humid wind traveling to a cold place, or warm air mixing with cold air, can both form clouds. At low altitude near the ground, it becomes fog.

  • Onyomi

    tip

    un(ウン) ウン

  • Kunyomi

    tip

    gumo(ぐも) ぐも

    kumo(くも) くも

  • Strokes

    tip

    12 strokes

  • Radical

    tip

    雨 (ame・amekammuri・amakammuri)

  • Related Keywords

    cloud cloud-like floating in the sky atmosphere celestial cirrus condensation cumulus fog haze humidity mist moisture nimbus overcast precipitation rain sky stratus vapor

Sentences including 雲

  • The moon came out from behind the clouds.

  • Not a cloud was to be seen.

  • There's more cloud today than yesterday.

  • The sun came out from behind the clouds.

  • There were no clouds today.

  • Look at those clouds ! it's going to rain.

  • The sky was full of clouds that night.

  • The sun went behind the clouds.

  • The sun broke through the clouds.

  • The plane was lost sight of in the clouds.

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