雲 – cloud

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The kanji 雲 means cloud. Its on’yomi (Chinese-derived reading) is ウン (un); its kun’yomi (native Japanese reading) is くも、-ぐも (kumo, gumo). It is written with 12 strokes, under radical 雨 (no. 173).

Stroke order

Stroke order from KanjiVG. Practise others with the stroke order lookup.

Readings

Type	Reading	Romaji
On’yomi	ウン	un
Kun’yomi	くも	kumo
Kun’yomi	-ぐも	gumo

A dot separates the kanji’s part from the okurigana (kana written after it), e.g. まな.ぶ → 学ぶ.

Radical and components

Radical: 雨 (Kangxi radical 173). Components: 一・雨・二・厶.

Words using 雲

雲くもcloud

Example sentences

雲がだんだん黒くなっています。

The clouds are getting darker.

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Kanji with the same radical

電震露需雨雪零雰霊雷霞霧霜雫霰

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