高云 (Gāo Yún) · Gao Yun, short-reigning emperor of Northern…

Meanings

1 Gao Yun, short-reigning emperor of Northern Yan during the Sixteen Kingdoms period

About Gao Yun

died 409 · 君主 monarch

Ruler of Yan in the Sixteen Kingdoms period, counted either as the last of Later Yan or the first of Northern Yan. Of Goguryeo descent, he was put on the throne in 407 after a coup and killed by his own guards.

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HSK 6

高云在位仅两年便被部下所杀。

Gāo Yún zàiwèi jǐn liǎng nián biàn bèi bùxià suǒ shā.

Gao Yun reigned for only two years before being killed by his own subordinates.

HSK 7-9

高云是十六国时期北燕的开国君主。

Gāo Yún shì Shíliùguó shíqī Běi Yān de kāiguó jūnzhǔ.

Gao Yun was the founding ruler of the Northern Yan during the Sixteen Kingdoms period.

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history

Born 高, he was renamed 慕容云 in 397 when the Later Yan emperor 慕容宝 adopted him for putting down a rebellion. On taking the throne he went back to 高, so histories use both names.

usage

高云 is also an ordinary modern name, literally 'high cloud', so in a modern text it almost always means someone else.