Characters › 云
4 strokes · radical 二 · HSK 3 · traditional 雲
12 strokes · HSK 3 · simplified 云
A way to remember it
A curl of rising vapour. It was borrowed to write the verb to say, a cloud, 雨, was added on top to keep the weather, and simplification handed the bare curl back.
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Shown in simplified. Converting whole words needs one-to-many knowledge this site does not have — 发 is 發 in 出发 but 髮 in 头发 — and a confidently wrong word would be worse than an honest simplified one.
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cloud
yún — cloud
Radical 二 · 4 strokes · HSK 3 · traditional 雲
12 strokes · HSK 3 · simplified 云
A way to remember itA curl of rising vapour. It was borrowed to write the verb to say, a cloud, 雨, was added on top to keep the weather, and simplification handed the bare curl back.