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云

云

云 U+4E91, 云
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-4E91
← 亐
[U+4E90] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 互 →
[U+4E92]
See also: 雲

Translingual

Stroke order

Han character

云 (radical 7 二+2, 4 strokes, cangjie input 一一戈 (MMI), four-corner 10731, composition ⿱二厶)

Derived terms

References

  • KangXi: page 86, character 8
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 254
  • Dae Jaweon: page 178, character 1
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 384, character 2
  • Unihan data for U+4E91

Chinese

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 云
Oracle bone script Small seal script
Small seal script

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References:

Mostly from Richard Sears' Chinese Etymology site (authorisation),
which in turn draws data from various collections of ancient forms of Chinese characters, including:

  • Shuowen Jiezi (small seal),
  • Jinwen Bian (bronze inscriptions),
  • Liushutong (large seal) and
  • Xu Jiaguwen Bian (oracle bone script).
Characters in the same phonetic series (云) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
魂 *ɢuːn
沄 *ɢuːn, *ɢun
忶 *ɢuːn, *ɢuns
囩 *ɢun
夽 *ŋunʔ
雲 *ɢun
芸 *ɢun
耘 *ɢun
妘 *ɢun
紜 *ɢun
云 *ɢun
耺 *ɢun
蕓 *ɢun
澐 *ɢun
橒 *ɢun
抎 *ɢunʔ

Pictogram (象形) , originally a stylized picture of clouds. The character was subsequently borrowed for a homophone meaning "to say", and the original meaning came to be represented by 雲 (OC *ɢun) through the addition of a semantic component 雨 (“rain”).

The simplified form adopted by the People's Republic of China in the 1950s eliminates this later addition and uses 云 for both "to say" and "cloud".

Etymology 1

For pronunciation and definitions of 云 – see 雲 (“clouds”).
(This character, 云, is the simplified form of 雲.)
Notes:

Etymology 2

simp. and trad.
 云

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 云
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 云 (35)
Final (韻) 文 (59)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division (等) III
Fanqie 王分切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /ɦɨun/
Pan
Wuyun		 /ɦiun/
Shao
Rongfen		 /ɣiuən/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /ɦun/
Li
Rong		 /ɣiuən/
Wang
Li		 /ɣĭuən/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /i̯uən/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 yún
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 云
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 yún
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ hjun ›
Old
Chinese		 /*[ɢ]ʷə[r]/
English say

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

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] 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 云
Reading # 1/1
No. 16363
Phonetic
component		 云
Rime
group		 文
Rime
subdivision		 2
Corresponding
MC rime		 雲
Old
Chinese		 /*ɢun/

Definitions

云

  1. (literary) to say; to speak (used when quoting from a source)
  2. A surname​.

Compounds

  • 不知所云
  • 云乎
  • 云云 (yúnyún)
  • 云為／云为
  • 云然
  • 云爾／云尔
  • 人云亦云
  • 但云
  • 子曰詩云／子曰诗云
  • 胡云
  • 詩云子曰／诗云子曰

Japanese

Kanji

云

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

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Readings

Derived terms

Korean

Hanja

云 • ‎(un) (hangeul 운, revised un, McCune-Reischauer un)

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Vietnamese

Han character

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References

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