mountain clouds; clouds over the mountains
Refers to clouds that form around or over mountains, often used in poetic or descriptive contexts.
In the morning, mountain clouds covered the valley.
mountains and clouds
Only with reading さんうん
Archaic reading さんうん; refers to mountains and clouds as a scenic pair, found in classical poetry or old texts.
In old waka poems, 山雲 is read as さんうん and describes scenery of mountains and clouds.
Standard kanji spelling for the common reading やまぐも.
Compound of 山 (mountain) and 雲 (cloud). The reading やまぐも is the standard kun'yomi compound; さんうん is an archaic on'yomi reading.