yún

equal

Simplified form of . Phonosemantic compound. represents the sound and represents the meaning.

Components
云 sound component

  Sound component

yún

  

clouds

吕 meaning component

  Meaning component

  

pitchpipe

Evolution

匀 Bronze script Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)

Bronze script

Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)
匀 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
匀 Traditional script Modern

Traditional script

Modern
匀 Simplified script Modern

Simplified script

Modern
Definitions

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yún

equal, impartially, uniform, even; even; well-distributed; uniform; to distribute evenly; to share

Most common words with 匀
Freq.
Word
Meaning

均匀

even

even

匀称

well shaped

匀速

uniform velocity

调匀

to mix evenly

Component uses

Meaning component in 1 character (0 verified)

Sound component in 4 characters (0 verified)

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[N-q]ʷi[n]

ywin

yún

even, uniform

*[ɢ]ʷi[ŋ]

ywin

yún

little, few (Shuōwén)


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 1.1853% of movies

3335th most common character in movies

2692nd most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

4

Traditional

Unicode

U+5300


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