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charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *云* | 云* | *云
(classical) to say
HSK 2
(meteorology) cloudy
HSK 2
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *雲* | 雲* | *雲
cloud / CL:
HSK 2
black cloud
HSK 6
crepuscular rays / sunbeams
Yungang, a district of Datong City 大同市, Shanxi
courtesy name of 關羽|关羽
altocumulus / high cumulus cloud
to say what everyone says (idiom) / to conform to what one perceives to be the majority view / to follow the herd
Qingyunpu, a district of Nanchang City 南昌市, Jiangxi
Yun County or Yunxian, a county in Lincang City 臨滄市|临沧市, Yunnan
Bayan Obo Mining District, a district of Baotou City 包頭市|包头市, Inner Mongolia
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *雲* | 雲* | *雲
surname Yun / short name for Yunnan 雲南|云南
Yunzhou, a district of Datong City 大同市, Shanxi
Chen Yunlin (1941-), chairman of PRC Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Straits (ARATS) 海峽兩岸關係協會|海峡两岸关系协会 (2008-2013)
to not know what sb is driving at / to be unintelligible
nimbostratus / stratus rain cloud
diffuse nebula
cirrus (cloud)
Evian, mineral water company / Évian-les-Bains, resort and spa town in south-eastern France
cloud computing
mostly sunny; mostly clear (meteorology)
(the) skies
to surge like a gathering storm (idiom) / to grow by leaps and bounds
high in the clouds / (computing) the cloud
amidst the clouds and mist / (fig.) mystified / puzzled
marble
there are no rivers to one who has crossed the ocean, and no clouds to one who has passed Mount Wu (idiom) / one who has seen the world doesn't stop at small things
the clouds / cloud layer / cloud bank
a cloud
(bird species of China) Eurasian skylark (Alauda arvensis)
weather / unstable situation
HSK 7-9
rosy clouds / CL:
as different as heaven and earth (idiom) / worlds apart
Zhao Yun (-229), general of Shu in Romance of the Three Kingdoms
to rapidly go up in the world / meteoric rise (of a career, social position etc)
that's why it is called...
(lit. and fig.) towering; lofty; high
diffuse nebula
lit. to dispel the clouds and see the sun (idiom); fig. to restore justice
Lingyun, a county in Baise City 百色市, Guangxi
dolomite
cumulus / heap cloud
mist
cloud
muscovite, mica (used in TCM)
lit. to rebuke Heaven and Earth (idiom); fig. shaking the whole world / all-powerful
Yunlin county in Taiwan
(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
dust cloud
fortune as unpredictable as the weather, every day may bring fortune or calamity (idiom); sth unexpected may happen at any moment
cumulonimbus (cloud)
clouding agent / emulsifier
Lianyun, a district of Lianyungang City 連雲港市|连云港市, Jiangsu
a galactic nebula
muscovite, mica (used in TCM)
cloud storage service
(bird species of China) marbled teal; marbled duck (Marmaronetta angustirostris)
tripod head
Yunxiao, a county in Zhangzhou City 漳州市, Fujian
Gao Yun (died 409) emperor of Northern or Later Yan dynasty
beyond the topmost clouds (idiom) / unimaginably far away
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
Baiyun Airport (Guangzhou)
a kind of cake
contrail
and so on / so and so / many and confused
mushroom cloud
to gather (in a crowd) / to converge / to swarm
stratocumulus cloud
Zuoyun, a county in Datong City 大同市, Shanxi
nuée ardente / hot cloud of volcanic ash
muscovite, mica (used in TCM)
Eagle or Star Queen Nebula M16
supremely honorable and righteous
lit. looking for rain clouds in times of drought (idiom) / fig. to yearn for relief from a desperate situation
(idiom) to vanish like smoke in thin air; to disappear
Chinese milk vetch (Astragalus sinicus)
ephemeral (idiom)
(bird species of China) Chinese leaf warbler (Phylloscopus yunnanensis)
the man (or woman) of the moment (idiom) / influential figure
like the clouds in the sky (i.e. numerous)
Crab Nebula
Lianyungang, prefecture-level city in Jiangsu Province 江蘇省|江苏省
(idiom) free spirit; person who leads a carefree, unfettered life

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