雲 (wan4 | yun2) : cloud

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雲

wan4

yun2

[1] clouds [2] a cloud of; a large number of [3] short for Yunnan province [4] a Chinese family name

Stroke count: 12

Level: 1

Radical: (#173)

This character is used in both Cantonese and Mandarin/Standard written Chinese.

雲 / 云

This character was added by sheik on 18th Mar 2007 21:22 and last edited on 15th Jul 2009 16:04

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雲吞 wan4 tan1 yun2 tun1 = wonton (dumplings)

烏雲 wu1 wan4 wu1 yun2 = black clouds

雲石 wan4 sek6 = marble 粵

雲呢拿 wan4*6 nei1 naa4*2 = vanilla 粵

雲吞麵 wan4 tan1 min6 = wonton noodles

雲彩 wan4 coi2 yun2 cai5 = clouds

白雲石 baak6 wan4 sek6 bai2 yun2 shi2 = dolomite

密雲 mat6 wan4 = cloudy

香雲紗 hoeng1 wan4 saa1 = a kind of light silk, gambiered Guangzhou gauze

炸雲吞 zaa3 wan4 tan1 = deep fried dumplings with sweet and sour sauce
See all 57 compounds (CantoDict reports 58 compounds in total, but some may be Common Formations)

Showing all 3 examples containing 雲

你想唔想食碗雲吞麵？粵
Do you want to eat a bowl of wonton noodles?

今天天空飄著朵朵雲國
The sky is filled with clouds today
[朵: do2 and doe2 are equally correct.]

呢個係雲石地板粵
This is a marble floor.

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國 : This term is used in Mandarin/Standard written Chinese, not Cantonese.
粵 : This term is used in Cantonese, not Mandarin/Standard written Chinese.
No icon: This term is used in both Cantonese and Mandarin/Standard written Chinese.

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Decimal representation of this word: 雲
Unicode code for this character: U+96F2 (off-site link)

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