云 yún

say, speak; clouds

HSK 4 #692

DEFINITIONS

  • say, speak
  • clouds
  • (classical) to say
  • surname Yun
  • abbr. for Yunnan Province 雲南省|云南省[Yun2 nan2 Sheng3]
  • cloud
  • CL:朵[duo3]

STROKES

云 stroke order diagram
云 stroke order animation

WORDS

风云 fēng yún weather; unstable situation
云霄 yún xiāo Yunxiao county in Zhangzhou 漳州[Zhang1 zhou1], Fujian; (the) skies
乌云 wū yún black cloud
云层 yún céng the clouds; cloud layer; cloud bank
烟消云散 yān xiāo yún sàn to vanish like smoke in thin air; to disappear
云彩 yún cai (coll.) cloud; CL:朵[duo3]
星云 xīng yún nebula
不知所云 bù zhī suǒ yún to not know what sb is driving at; to be unintelligible
云梯 yún tī escalade
云雀 yún què (bird species of China) Eurasian skylark (Alauda arvensis)
翻云覆雨 fān yún fù yǔ to produce clouds with one turn of the hand and rain with another (idiom); fig. to shift one's ground; tricky and inconstant; to make love
白云 bái yún Baiyun district of Guiyang city 貴陽市|贵阳市[Gui4 yang2 shi4], Guizhou; Baiyun district of Guangzhou city 廣州市|广州市[Guang3 zhou1 shi4], Guangdong; white cloud
云端 yún duān fig. high in the clouds; (in the) cloud (computing)
云集 yún jí to gather (in a crowd); to converge; to swarm
疑云 yí yún a haze of doubts and suspicions
过眼云烟 guò yǎn yún yān ephemeral (idiom)
平步青云 píng bù qīng yún to rapidly go up in the world; meteoric rise (of a career, social position etc)
云朵 yún duǒ a cloud
风云人物 fēng yún rén wù the man (or woman) of the moment (idiom); influential figure
阴云 yīn yún dark cloud
凌云 líng yún Lingyun county in Baise 百色[Bai3 se4], Guangxi; (lit. and fig.) towering; lofty; high
蘑菇云 mó gū yún mushroom cloud
九霄云外 jiǔ xiāo yún wài beyond the topmost clouds (idiom); unimaginably far away
云母 yún mǔ mica
行云流水 xíng yún liú shuǐ lit. moving clouds and flowing water (idiom); fig. very natural and flowing style of calligraphy, writing, etc; natural and unforced
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