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Kotomora

雲

cloud

JLPTN2StatusJōyō · grade 2FrequencyTop 2,000Strokes12

Readings

On'yomi

  • ウン

Kun'yomi

  • くも
  • -ぐも

Nanori

  • き
  • ずも
  • のめ

Meaning

雲 centers on visible masses of water droplets or ice crystals in the sky: a cloud.

Most common words using 雲

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  • 雲くも
    N4

    cloud

  • 出雲いずも

    Izumo (former province located in the east of present-day Shimane Prefecture)

  • 雲母うんも

    mica; isinglass

  • 星雲せいうん

    nebula

  • 八雲やくも

    thick clouds

  • 東雲しののめ

    daybreak; dawn; aurora

  • 雲雀ひばり
    N1

    skylark (Alauda arvensis)

  • 雨雲あまぐも
    N1

    rain cloud

  • 風雲ふううん

    winds and clouds; nature; the elements

  • 雲海うんかい

    sea of clouds

  • 叢雲むらくも

    gathering clouds; group of clouds

  • 雲呑ワンタン

    wonton (Chinese dumpling); won ton; wantan; wanton; wuntun

  • 彩雲さいうん

    iridescent clouds; glowing clouds

  • 雲行きくもゆき

    weather; look of the sky

  • 積乱雲せきらんうん

    cumulonimbus cloud

  • 暗雲あんうん

    dark clouds

  • 瑞雲ずいうん

    auspicious clouds

  • 闇雲やみくも
    N1

    reckless; (at) random; haphazard; blind; sudden; abrupt

  • 雲泥の差うんでいのさ

    wide difference; a world of difference

  • 水雲もずく

    mozuku (Cladosiphon okamuranus and Sphaerotrichia divaricata, types of edible seaweed)

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Etymology

雲 combines 雨 (rain) with 云, which originally depicted swirling vapor and also provides the sound. Together they express a rain-bearing cloud.

Meaning mnemonic

Rain 雨 gathers above swirling vapor 云, forming a cloud.

Reading mnemonic

For ウン, imagine a cloud so thick it makes the sky look like a woolly un (a playful sound for 'oon'): un -> ウン, and the cloud darkens the sky.