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云

yún

HSK 2 · word 1175 of 3,000

Meaning

Measure word

朵 duǒ

Example sentence

天上没有云。

tiān shàng méi yǒu yún

There are no clouds in the sky.

The character 云

云 drew a cloud before it was borrowed for the classical 'to say', which is why it turns up in old quotations. 雲 was coined for the cloud after that, and simplification handed the job back: 多云 is cloudy, 白云 a white one.

Words containing 云

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