yún
noun

Meanings

  1. 1 the smooth green skin of bamboo; bamboo

Examples

Yǔ hòu zhú yún qīng cuì, géwài kě'ài.
The green bamboo skin gleams, fresh and lovely after the rain.

Tips

history
rarely stands alone in modern Chinese. As yún it is a literary word for bamboo or its glossy skin, common in classical poetry and given names. Read jūn, it appears in the Sichuan place name County. The phonetic is .
register
Literary and name use only, found in old poetry, place names and personal names, not in everyday speech.

Components

radical
zhú
bamboo
⺮ is the bamboo radical in top form. It carries the meaning: names bamboo and its outer skin.
phonetic
jūn
even; equal
supplies the sound, kept as jūn in the place-name reading and shifted to yún in the bamboo sense. The same phonetic appears in .

Stroke Order

yún