HSK 5 · Body

晕 yūn “dizzy” in Chinese

Traditional 暈

What 晕 means

  1. dizzy
  2. to faint
  3. confused
  4. giddy
  5. to swoon
More meanings from CC-CEDICT
  • to lose consciousness

How to say 晕

  • Pitch chart of the first tone: stays high and level, 5 to 5 on the five-level scale晕yūn1st tone, high and level

晕 in a sentence

  1. 我一站起来就觉得头晕。

    Wǒ yí zhàn qǐlai jiù juéde tóuyūn.

    I feel dizzy as soon as I stand up.

    Sentence #784821 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  2. 听到消息，她晕倒了。

    Tīngdào xiāoxi, tā yūndǎo le.

    She fainted when she heard the news.

    Sentence #4282858 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  3. 我最近忙得晕头转向。

    Wǒ zuìjìn máng de yūntóu-zhuànxiàng.

    I’ve been run off my feet lately.

    Sentence #10043970 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

How 晕 is built

Each colour is one part of the character. Parts repeat across thousands of characters, so learning them makes new words easier. See all 214 in our radicals chart.

The character 晕 (yūn) with each of its parts in a different colour
晕yūnconfused
  • 日sun · rìMeaning part
  • 军army · jūnSound part

日 hints at the meaning (sun); 军 (jūn) hints at the sound. Compare it with yūn.

How to write 晕

晕 10 strokes

Watch the order, then press Try writing it and draw each stroke in the grid. Each stroke is checked as you go.

晕 (yūn) stroke order chart: each stroke of the character in the order you write it
Stroke order chart for 晕 (yūn). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.

Words related to 晕

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FAQs

晕 (yūn) means “dizzy” or “to faint”. It is an HSK 5 word.
Say it yūn: yūn with a 1st tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
In Traditional characters, used in Taiwan and Hong Kong, 晕 is written 暈. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type yun with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 晕 from the suggestions. Typing yun into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
晕 is an HSK 5 word in the HSK 2.0 word lists.

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Sources: meaning and pinyin checked by a native Mandarin teacher against the official HSK lists. Extra meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.