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charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *云* | 云* | *云
surname Yun / abbr. for Yunnan Province 雲南省|云南省
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *云* | 云* | *云
cloud / CL:
HSK 2
a cloud
cloud computing
the clouds / cloud layer / cloud bank
extragalactic nebula
cloudless
(bird species of China) oriental skylark (Alauda gulgula)
high in the clouds / (computing) the cloud
Yunlin county in Taiwan
cirrocumulus (cloud)
to gather (in a crowd) / to converge / to swarm
mist
fortune as unpredictable as the weather, every day may bring fortune or calamity (idiom); sth unexpected may happen at any moment
Yunyang, a county in Chongqing 重慶|重庆
cloud
Lau Ching-Wan (1964-), Hong Kong actor
(meteorology) cloudy
HSK 2
Evian, mineral water company / Évian-les-Bains, resort and spa town in south-eastern France
(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
contrail
mushroom cloud
mica
(idiom) teeming with experts
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
to rapidly go up in the world / meteoric rise (of a career, social position etc)
Yun'an, a district of Yunfu City 雲浮市|云浮市, Guangdong
(bird species of China) Eurasian skylark (Alauda arvensis)
Ma Yun (1964-), aka Jack Ma, Chinese billionaire businessman, co-founder of Alibaba 阿里巴巴
black cloud
HSK 6
Yunxiao, a county in Zhangzhou City 漳州市, Fujian
beyond the topmost clouds (idiom) / unimaginably far away
nebula
Yunnan Province, capital Kunming 昆明市 (abbr. to 雲|云 or )
clouds and mist
Yungang Caves at Datong 大同, Shanxi 山西
(coll.) cloud / CL:
in large numbers / in force / lit. clouds bubbling up
Yunmeng, a county in Xiaogan City 孝感市, Hubei
lit. to rebuke Heaven and Earth (idiom); fig. shaking the whole world / all-powerful
lit. a white cloud transforms into what looks like a gray dog (idiom) / fig. the unpredictable changeability of the world
Yunyan, a district of Guiyang City 貴陽市|贵阳市, Guizhou
rosy clouds / CL:
supremely honorable and righteous
spruce
Yunfu, prefecture-level city in Guangdong Province 廣東省|广东省
(the) skies
(idiom) to vanish like smoke in thin air; to disappear
Yunhe county in Lishui 麗水|丽水, Zhejiang
clouded leopard (Neofelis nebulosa)
lit. cloud and rain / fig. sexual intercourse
mist; clouds; smoke
the man (or woman) of the moment (idiom) / influential figure
Yunlong district of Xuzhou city 徐州市, Jiangsu
a woman's beautiful, thick hair
(idiom) Zhu Yun breaks the railing (Zhu Yun was a Han Dynasty official who accused the emperor's tutor of corruption, and when sentenced to death, clung to the palace hall railing so fiercely while demanding justice that he broke it); (fig.) to speak the truth with unwavering courage; to admonish fearlessly / also pr. [zhu1yun2-she2jian4]
cloud chamber (physics)
Yunnan and Guizhou plateau in southwest China, covering east Yunnan, whole of Guizhou, west of Guangxi and southern margins of Sichuan, Hubei and Hunan
great nebula in Andromeda or Andromeda galaxy M31
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)
Xiangyun county in Dali Bai autonomous prefecture 大理白族自治州, Yunnan
magic cloud
emission nebula
to surge like a gathering storm (idiom) / to grow by leaps and bounds
cirrostratus (cloud) / also written 捲層雲|卷层云
cirrostratus (cloud) / also written 卷層雲|卷层云
dust cloud
to be bustling with customers
wonton
Yunlin county in Taiwan
floating clouds
like the clouds in the sky (i.e. numerous)
Omega or Horseshoe Nebula M17
cloud storage service
muscovite, mica (used in TCM)
Eagle or Star Queen Nebula M16
Qingyun county in Dezhou 德州, Shandong
reflection nebula
dolomite (geology)
electron cloud
altostratus / high stratus cloud
mostly sunny; mostly clear (meteorology)
Yunxi, a district of Yueyang City 岳陽市|岳阳市, Hunan
Yunnan, Guizhou and Sichuan
Lianyungang, prefecture-level city in Jiangsu Province 江蘇省|江苏省
erroneous form of Kim Jong-un 金正恩
clear sky / fig. high official position / noble
changeable situation (idiom)
cumulonimbus (cloud)
a kind of cake
Trifid Nebula, M20
diffuse nebula
lit. to become lost in a fog (idiom) / fig. at a complete loss
Chen Yun (1905-1995), communist leader and economist

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