云游

雲遊

yúnyóu

verb #36,950

Meanings

1 to roam / wander (typically of an itinerant monk or priest)
2 (modern) to travel virtually / sightsee online

Characters

to wander / to travel

Examples

HSK 7-9

传说这位老和尚一生云游四海，居无定所。

Chuánshuō zhè wèi lǎo héshang yìshēng yúnyóu sìhǎi, jū wú dìngsuǒ.

Legend has it the old monk wandered the land all his life, never settling in one place.

HSK 7-9

疫情期间大家都在家云游故宫。

Yìqíng qījiān dàjiā dōu zài jiā yúnyóu Gùgōng.

During the pandemic everyone toured the Forbidden City virtually from home.

Tips

culture

The classical sense describes Buddhist/Daoist 云游僧 (itinerant monks) who travel 'as free as clouds' to visit masters and sacred sites - the metaphor being that a cloud has no fixed home. The modern 云 (cloud-) prefix generates COVID-era neologisms like 云旅游, 云办公, 云逛街 where 云 means 'virtual / online'.

Stroke Order

云 yún

游 yóu