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昀

yún
noun

Meanings

  1. 1 sunlight
  2. 2 (chiefly used in given names)

Examples

HSK 4
她的名字里有个昀字，意思是日光。
Tā de míngzi lǐ yǒu gè yún zì, yìsi shì rìguāng.
Her name has the character yún, meaning 'sunlight'.
HSK 6
清代学者纪昀号晓岚。
Qīngdài xuézhě Jì Yún hào Xiǎolán.
The Qing scholar Ji Yun took 'Xiaolan' as his courtesy name.

Tips

culture
Best known from the Qing scholar 纪昀 (1724-1805), chief editor of the 四库全书 ('Complete Library of the Four Treasuries'). The 'sunlight' meaning makes it a popular auspicious character in modern given names.

Components

radical
日 rì
sun
The sun 日 on the left carries the meaning directly. The whole character means 'sunlight', so the sun radical is doing real semantic work.
phonetic
匀 yún
even; to spread evenly
匀 ('even') gives the sound yún; one can read a faint hint of sunlight spreading evenly across a surface.

Stroke Order

昀 yún