yùn
noun

Meanings

  1. 1 (classical) generous and steady; weighty in character
  2. 2 surname Yun

Examples

Yùn shòu píng shì Qīngdài zhùmíng de huāhuì huàjiā.
Yun Shouping was a celebrated Qing-dynasty flower painter.

Tips

history
originally meant 'generous and weighty in character'. That sense is obsolete; today the character survives almost only as a surname, as in the Qing painter 寿.
register
Archaic and surname-only, encountered as a family name or in old texts, not as a common word.

Components

radical
xīn
heart; mind; feeling
is the heart radical in left-side form. The original meaning, a weighty and generous disposition, is a quality of the heart.
phonetic
jūn
army
supplies the sound, drifted to yùn. The same phonetic appears in (dizzy) and (to move; luck).

Stroke Order

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