浮雲

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See also: 浮云

Chinese

to float cloud; Yunnan (abbrev.); surname
trad. (浮雲) 浮 雲
simp. (浮云) 浮 云
anagram 雲浮／云浮

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 浮 雲
Reading # 1/1 1/1
Initial (聲) 並 (3) 云 (35)
Final (韻) 尤 (136) 文 (59)
Tone (調) Level (Ø) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open Closed
Division (等) III III
Fanqie 縛謀切 王分切
Baxter bjuw hjun
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/bɨu/ /ɦɨun/
Pan
Wuyun 		/biu/ /ɦiun/
Shao
Rongfen 		/biəu/ /ɣiuən/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/buw/ /ɦun/
Li
Rong 		/biu/ /ɣiuən/
Wang
Li 		/bĭəu/ /ɣĭuən/
Bernhard
Karlgren 		/bʱi̯ə̯u/ /i̯uən/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		fóu yún
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		fau4 wan4
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 浮 雲
Reading # 1/1 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		fú yún
Middle
Chinese 		‹ bjuw › ‹ hjun ›
Old
Chinese 		/*m.b(r)u/ /*ʷə/
English float (v.) cloud

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. * as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 浮 雲
Reading # 1/1 1/1
No. 3346 16358
Phonetic
component 		孚 云
Rime
group 		幽 文
Rime
subdivision 		1 2
Corresponding
MC rime 		浮 雲
Old
Chinese 		/*bu/ /*ɢun/

Noun

浮雲

  1. (literary) floating cloud(s)
  2. (literary or Mainland China slang, figurative) something not worth cherishing; unimportant matter
    神馬都是浮雲／神马都是浮云  ―  shénmǎ dōu shì fúyún  ―  everything is nothing
  3. (literary, figurative) passing time
  4. (literary, figurative) evil and crafty minister
  5. (literary, figurative) life of a vagrant
  6. (literary, figurative, calligraphy) lively, flowing brushwork

Derived terms

Descendants

Sino-Xenic (浮雲):

Japanese

Etymology 1

Kanji in this term
浮 雲
うき
Grade: S 		くも > ぐも
Grade: 2
kun'yomi

Shift from older ukikumo,[1][2] itself a compound of 浮(う)き (uki, “floating”) + 雲(くも) (kumo, “cloud”). The kumo changes to gumo as an instance of rendaku (連濁).

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

Noun

浮(うき)雲(ぐも) • (ukigumo) 

  1. a drifting or floating cloud

Proverb

浮(うき)雲(ぐも) • (ukigumo) 

  1. instability

Proper noun

浮(うき)雲(ぐも) • (Ukigumo) 

  1. a novel by Futabatei Shimei (see The Drifting Cloud on Wikipedia.Wikipedia )
  2. a novel by Fumiko Hayashi

Etymology 2

Kanji in this term
浮 雲
ふ
Grade: S 		うん
Grade: 2
kan'yōon on'yomi

From Middle Chinese compound 浮雲 (MC bjuw hjun).

Pronunciation

Noun

浮(ふ)雲(うん) • (fuun) 

  1. a drifting or floating cloud

Proverb

浮(ふ)雲(うん) • (fuun) 

  1. instability

References

  1. ^ Matsumura, Akira (1995) 大辞泉 [Daijisen] (in Japanese), First edition, Tokyo: Shogakukan, →ISBN
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN
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