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yún
HSK 2freq #3335

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yún
  1. 1.cloud
  2. 2.CL:朵[duǒ]
Yún
  1. 1.surname Yun
  2. 2.short name for Yunnan 云南[Yún nán]
yún
  1. 1.(classical) to say

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Wiktionary

  1. 1.to say; to speak (used when quoting from a source)
  2. 2.A particle.
  3. 3.a surname:
  4. 4.originated from 妘 (Yún)
  5. 5.originated from Zhou dynasty feudal state of 䢵
  6. 6.originated from surname 牒云
  7. 7.simplified from 雲
  8. 8.to go on a pleasure trip; to roam around; to stroll; to saunter; to go for a walk
  9. 9.(Chinese linguistics) the Middle Chinese initial of 云 (MC hjun), equivalent to the 3rd 等 (děng) of the initial 喻 (MC yuH)
  10. 10.cloud (Classifier: 片 m; 朵 m; 嚿 c)
  11. 11.cloud
  12. 12.to experience or judge something indirectly (without firsthand experience); to be an armchair expert
  13. 13.many; numerous
  14. 14.a surname

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Etymology

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).

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