雲

Stroke order (Taiwan)

Stroke order

雲 (Kangxi radical 173, 雨+4, 12 strokes, cangjie input 一月一一戈 (MBMMI), four-corner 1073₁, composition ⿱⻗云)

1. Shuōwén Jiězì radical №423

• 澐, 墵, 橒, 繧, 蕓, 曇, 䉙, 䨺, 𠎉, 𡢅, 𧬞, 𣊯, 𬎌, 𥢚, 𥖅, 𨝽, 𠟙

• 𩃬

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1372, character 5
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 42235
• Dae Jaweon: page 1879, character 16
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 4058, character 9
• Unihan data for U+96F2

Wikipedia has articles on:

• 雲 (消歧義) (Written Standard Chinese^?)
• 雲 (搞清楚) (Cantonese)
• Yùn (Hakka)
• 雲 (Classical)
• 云 (Wu)

Historical forms of the character 雲
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

Ideogrammic compound (會意 / 会意) and phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *ɢun) : semantic 雨 (“rain”) + phonetic 云 (OC *ɢun, “cloud”). Originally written 云, with the 雨 radical added to 云 to distinguish from the borrowed sense of “to speak”.

Very few outside cognates exist. Starostin compares it with Mizo vân (“sky, the skies, heaven”) and Karbi inghun (“cloud”).

Alternatively, this is a derivation from a root meaning “to revolve”. Compare 運 (OC *ɢuns, “to move”), 回 (OC *ɡuːl, “to whirl, to circle”) (Schuessler, 2007).

雲

1. cloud (Classifier: 片 m; 朵 m; 嚿 c)

   • 上天同雲，雨雪雰雰。 [Pre-Classical Chinese, trad.]
     上天同云，雨雪氛氛。 [Pre-Classical Chinese, simp.]

     From: The Classic of Poetry, c. 11^th – 7^th centuries BCE, translated based on James Legge's version

     Shàngtiān tóng yún, yǔxuě fēnfēn.

     The heavens over head are one arch of clouds, snowing in multitudinous flakes.

   • 化而為鳥，其名為鵬。鵬之背，不知其幾千里也；怒而飛，其翼若垂天之雲。 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
     化而为鸟，其名为鹏。鹏之背，不知其几千里也；怒而飞，其翼若垂天之云。 [Classical Chinese, simp.]

     From: Zhuangzi, circa 3^rd – 2^nd centuries BCE

     Huà ér wéi niǎo, qí míng wéi Péng. Péng zhī bèi, bùzhī qí jǐ qiān lǐ yě; nù ér fēi, qí yì ruò chuítiān zhī yún.

     changes into a bird with the name of Peng, the back of which is I do not know how many miles in extent. When this bird rouses itself and flies, its wings are like clouds all round the sky.

2. (computing) cloud
3. (figurative) many; numerous
4. Short for 雲南／云南 (Yúnnán, “Yunnan”).
5. a surname