Search results for "云" - New World Encyclopedia
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- |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 ...27 KB (3,822 words) - 10:26, 7 June 2023
- 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 ...45 KB (6,288 words) - 22:48, 10 February 2024
- 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 ...55 KB (8,141 words) - 17:02, 10 December 2023