雲 Stroke Order

雲 (yún) 1. Water vapor rises and cools, condensing into small water droplets, gathering in the air to float. 水氣上升遇冷凝聚成微小的水珠，成團地在空中飄浮。 2. Refers to Yunnan Province in China. 指中國“雲南省”。 3. A surname. For example, in the Tang Dynasty, there was Yun Chao Xia. 姓。如唐代有雲朝霞。 4. Metaphor for many. 比喻多。 Example usages: - 行～流水。 (Clouds flow like water.) - ～腿 (Yunnan Province's ham.) Other meanings: 1. Same original meaning (cloud). 同本義 ([En.] cloud) 2. Water vapor in the atmosphere, coalescing into small droplets or particles, or visible accumulations present with rain, called clouds. 大氣中的水蒸氣，凝聚而成小水滴或水粒，或與雨共存時肉眼可見的集合體，叫做雲。 3. Metaphor for something light and flowing like a cloud. 比喻輕柔舒捲如雲之物。 4. Microscopic particles suspended in surrounding air or a gas, usually visible collections. 懸浮在周圍空氣或一種氣體中的物質的細微質點，通常是看得見的集合物。 5. Refers to something that causes damage, is disputed, or subject to suspicion. 造成損害、毀損、受到懷疑或有爭議的某事物。 6. Refers to the high-altitude air. 借指高空 ([En.] upper air; high altitude) 7. Refers to a hypothetical medium surrounding an object ([En.] atmosphere). 指環繞某種物體的一種假定介質 ([En.] atmosphere)。 8. Abbreviation for Yunnan Province. 雲南省的簡稱 ([En.] Yunnan) 9. A surname. 姓 形 (yún) 1. Metaphor for numerous or many. 比喻盛多 ([En.] numerous; many) 2. Metaphor for high. 比喻高 ([En.] high) 3. Metaphor for remote. 比喻疏遠 ([En.] remote) 4. Metaphor for instability or wandering. 比喻飄泊不定 ([En.] moving) Example usages: - 齊子歸止，其從如雲 (The return of the Qi son, his followers are like clouds.) - 雲天 (High sky.) Additional references: 1. In the Book of Songs, 'cloud' indicates myriad entities following. 《詩·齊風·敝笱》：齊子歸止，其從如雲。 2. In the Han Dynasty, it refers to the grandeur as "cloudy." 《漢書·司馬相如傳》：威武紛雲。 Examples: - 雲從 (Many followers). - 雲天 (High heavens). Thus, the character 雲 encompasses a variety of meanings, primarily relating to clouds but also extending to metaphorical uses in literature and speech.