wén
noun

Meanings

  1. 1 patterned cloud; cloud with a decorative pattern

Examples

Tiānbiān piāo zhe jǐ piàn cǎi wén.
Patterned clouds drifted across the evening sky.
Tā de míngzi lǐ yǒu gè wén zì.
Her name has the character 'wen', meaning patterned clouds.

Tips

culture
Rare in ordinary text, but very common in given names, especially for girls, where it suggests soft, beautifully patterned clouds. As a plain noun it means colored or figured cloud.

Components

radical
rain
The rain radical on top, the meaning carrier. It groups the character with sky and weather words; clouds belong to the rain family.
phonetic
wén
pattern; writing
Provides the sound, read and unchanged here. Its own sense 'pattern, decorative figure' also matches the meaning, a cloud with a pattern.

Stroke Order

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