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charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *雲* | 雲* | *雲
cloud / CL:
HSK 2
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *云* | 云* | *云
(classical) to say
HSK 2
(meteorology) cloudy
HSK 2
black cloud
HSK 6
weather / unstable situation
HSK 7-9
cirrostratus (cloud) / also written 捲層雲|卷层云
Eagle or Star Queen Nebula M16
to be bustling with customers
Baiyukuang district of Baotou city 包頭市|包头市, Inner Mongolia
cirrostratus (cloud) / also written 卷層雲|卷层云
catalog of stars and nebulae
the man (or woman) of the moment (idiom) / influential figure
Lau Ching-Wan (1964-), Hong Kong actor
cloudless
beautiful clouds
in large numbers / in force / lit. clouds bubbling up
Yunnan Province, capital Kunming 昆明市 (abbr. to 雲|云 or )
Baiyun, a district of Guangzhou City 廣州市|广州市, Guangdong / Baiyun, a district of Guiyang City 貴陽市|贵阳市, Guizhou
high in the clouds / (computing) the cloud
supremely honorable and righteous
a woman's beautiful, thick hair
clouded leopard (Neofelis nebulosa)
contrail
Yunhe county in Lishui 麗水|丽水, Zhejiang
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *雲* | 雲* | *雲
surname Yun / abbr. for Yunnan Province 雲南省|云南省
rising straight up in a clear sky (idiom); rapid promotion to a high post / meteoric career
ephemeral (idiom)
Yunlin county in Taiwan
nebula
Yunlin county in Taiwan
as different as heaven and earth (idiom) / worlds apart
lit. turning his hand palm up he gathers the clouds, turning his hand palm down he turns them to rain / very powerful and capable (idiom)
a cloud
(lit. and fig.) towering; lofty; high
Qingyun county in Dezhou 德州, Shandong
Yunxi district of Yueyang city 岳陽|岳阳, Hunan
white cloud
Xiangyun county in Dali Bai autonomous prefecture 大理白族自治州, Yunnan
magic cloud
(bird species of China) Eurasian skylark (Alauda arvensis)
erroneous form of Kim Jong-un 金正恩
Yunfu, prefecture-level city in Guangdong Province 廣東省|广东省
(coll.) cloud / CL:
wonton
like the clouds in the sky (i.e. numerous)
clouds and mist
clear sky / fig. high official position / noble
rosy clouds / CL:
to rapidly go up in the world / meteoric rise (of a career, social position etc)
Yunlong district of Xuzhou city 徐州市, Jiangsu / Yunlong county in Dali Bai autonomous prefecture 大理白族自治州, Yunnan
changeable situation (idiom)
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
muscovite, mica (used in TCM)
Yun county in Lincang 臨滄|临沧, Yunnan
(idiom) teeming with experts
lit. to dispel the clouds and see the sun (idiom); fig. to restore justice
beyond the topmost clouds (idiom) / unimaginably far away
spruce
mushroom cloud
to wander (typically of an errant priest)
fortune as unpredictable as the weather, every day may bring fortune or calamity (idiom); sth unexpected may happen at any moment
nuée ardente / hot cloud of volcanic ash
(idiom) a world of difference
cloud
Lianyungang, prefecture-level city in Jiangsu Province 江蘇省|江苏省
mist; clouds; smoke
to surge like a gathering storm (idiom) / to grow by leaps and bounds
Guanyun county in Lianyungang 連雲港|连云港, Jiangsu
Jinyun county in Lishui 麗水|丽水, Zhejiang
Yungang Caves at Datong 大同, Shanxi 山西
a haze of doubts and suspicions
ephemeral (idiom)
tripod head
Yunnan and Guizhou plateau in southwest China, covering east Yunnan, whole of Guizhou, west of Guangxi and southern margins of Sichuan, Hubei and Hunan
lit. a white cloud transforms into what looks like a gray dog (idiom) / fig. the unpredictable changeability of the world
Sun Wukong's magical cloud
cumulonimbus (cloud)
Jinyun county in Lishui 麗水|丽水, Zhejiang
dark cloud
lit. to shade in the clouds to offset the moon (idiom); fig. a foil / a contrasting character to a main hero
lit. dispersed by wind and scattered like clouds (idiom); fig. scattered far and wide (of friends and relatives)
marble
Yunxi district of Yueyang city 岳陽|岳阳, Hunan
Qingyun county in Dezhou 德州, Shandong
floating clouds / fleeting / transient
(military) ladder used for scaling the walls of a fortified place (i.e. for escalading) in ancient times / firefighters' extension ladder / stone steps on a mountain
to swallow clouds and blow out fog (idiom) / to blow cigarette or opium smoke
Yunxiao, a county in Zhangzhou City 漳州市, Fujian
and so on / so and so / many and confused
lit. heroism reaching to the clouds (idiom)
a kind of cake

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