Search results for "云" - New World Encyclopedia

|Abbreviation = 滇 or 云 |AbbrevPinyin = Diān or Yún |ISOAbbrev = 53 |Map = China ... |OriginOfName = 云 yún – Yunling Mountains 南 nán – south "South of the Yunling Mountains ...

For instance, the character for "cloud" was originally 云, but the character was borrowed to write a homophonous word meaning "to say." To disambiguate the two uses of the character, the "rain ...

form. The character 雲 yún (cloud) was written with the structure 云 in the oracle bone script of the Shāng dynasty, and had remained in use later as a phonetic loan in the meaning of to say. The simplified form reverted ...