Memory phrase for the character: 雲

雲

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Meaning

cloud

Pronunciation

UN
kumo

Explanation

 Top: rain 雨 (View out of a window 冂 with a cloud 一 from which it is raining =,=), bottom: fog 云

Mnemonic
 
Both rain and fog come out of clouds.

Radicals

雨 rainView out of a window 冂 into the rain =,=. The upper line is a rain cloud.
云 fog云 has the meaning "fog" only in Chinese. This original meaning is still visible in: cloud 雲. In Japanese it has the meaning to say/speak 云. For "fog" itself the character: 霧 (MU, kiri) is used.




 Vocabulary

雲 くも  cloud
黒雲 くろくも  dark (black) clouds
雲海 うんかい  sea of clouds
綿雲 わたぐも  fleecy clouds (esp. cumulus clouds)
星雲 せいうん  Galaxie, Sternennebel
浮雲 うきぐも  drifting, floating cloud

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