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雲 kanji
cloud
- JLPT level
- N2 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N4 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 12
- School grade
- Grade 2 (elementary school)
On readings
ウン
Kun readings
くも-ぐも
Words with 雲
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —筋斗雲Flying Nimbus (magical cloud appearing in the Dragonball manga)
- —雲散霧消vanishing like mist
- —雲鬢花顔beautiful woman (metaphorical)
- —暗黒星雲dark nebula
- —行雲流水(metaphorically) floating with the tide
- —散光星雲diffuse nebula
- —渦巻星雲spiral nebula
- —かに星雲Crab Nebula
- —環状星雲Ring Nebula
- —暗雲低迷gathering dark clouds; being under the shadow of
- —雲煙万里limitless expanse of clouds and smoke
- —雲泥万里being poles apart; (there being) all the difference in the world
- —雲雨巫山sexual liaison
- —雲煙過眼not being obsessed with something very long (just as clouds and haze pass swiftly before one's eyes)
- —雲集霧散(many things) gathering like clouds and vanishing like mist; swarming and scattering
- —雲水行脚itinerant monk being on pilgrimages to many lands
- —閑雲野鶴life in natural setting, free from worldly cares
- —朝雲暮雨sexual liaison; morning clouds and evening rain
- —富貴浮雲riches and honors are as fleeting as floating clouds; fortune and fame are here today, gone tomorrow
- —巫山雲雨sexual liaison