HSK 4 · Nature

云 yún “cloud” in Chinese

Traditional 雲

What 云 means

  1. cloud
  2. short name for Yunnan 云南

Measure word 朵 duǒ · 一朵云 yì duǒ yún

How to say 云

  • Pitch chart of the second tone: rises from mid to high, 3 to 5 on the five-level scale云yún2nd tone, rising

云 in a sentence

  1. 天上没有云。

    Tiānshàng méiyǒu yún.

    There isn’t a cloud in the sky.

    Sentence #335530 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  2. 那朵云对我来说像一只兔子。

    Nà duǒ yún duì wǒ lái shuō xiàng yì zhī tùzi.

    To me, that cloud looks like a rabbit.

    Sentence #812324 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  3. 月亮被云遮住了。

    Yuèliang bèi yún zhēzhù le.

    The moon was hidden behind the clouds.

    Sentence #359011 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters · translation adapted

How 云 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 云 (yún) with each of its parts in a different colour
云yúnto say
  • 二two · èr
  • 厶private · sī

How to write 云

云 4 strokes

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

Words related to 云

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FAQs

云 (yún) means “cloud” or “short name for Yunnan 云南”. It is an HSK 4 word.
Say it yún: yún with a 2nd 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, 云 is written 雲. The pronunciation is the same.
Use 朵 (duǒ). For example, one cloud is 一朵云 (yì duǒ yún).
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type yun with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 云 from the suggestions. Typing yun into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
云 is an HSK 4 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.