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昀

yún
noun

Meanings

  1. 1 sunlight
  2. 2 (chiefly used in given names)

Examples

她的名字里有个昀字，意思是日光。
Tā de míngzi lǐ yǒu gè yún zì, yìsi shì rìguāng.
Her name has the character yún, meaning 'sunlight'.
清代学者纪昀号晓岚。
Qīngdài xuézhě Jì Yún hào Xiǎolán.
The Qing scholar Ji Yun took 'Xiaolan' as his courtesy name.

Tips

culture
Best known from the Qing scholar 纪昀 (1724–1805), chief editor of the 四库全书 ('Complete Library of the Four Treasuries'). The 'sunlight' meaning makes it a popular auspicious character in modern given names.

Components

radical
日 rì
sun
The sun 日 on the left carries the meaning directly, the whole character means 'sunlight', so the sun radical is doing real semantic work.
phonetic
匀 yún
even; to spread evenly
匀 ('even') gives the sound yún; one can read a faint hint of sunlight spreading evenly across a surface.

Stroke Order

昀 yún