The Chinese Radical: 云


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Meaning
cloud, fog    云

Explanation

Used in these characters:
HSK 1
to meet, can, be possible, likely to, to assemble
huì, kuài
Top: person 人, below: to say, cloud 云 (It can drip from both 二, namely from noses 厶 or: clouds) - [厶 = nose in side view]
When persons are speaking 云 together as "two noses" they meet and assemble.  
HSK 2
to move, transport, use, luck, fate
yùn
Left: movement 辶, right: cloud 云 (It can drip from both 二, namely from noses 厶 or: clouds)
The movement of clouds stands for: movements and transport.  
HSK 2
to move, to act, to use
dòng
Left: cloud, to speak 云 (It can drip from both 二, namely from noses 厶 or: clouds), right: force 力
Not only clouds move, but also with force you can make things move.  
HSK 3
floor (of a buildings), layer, stratum, story
céng
Outside: 尸 (buttock in side view), below: cloud, to say 云 (It can drip from both 二, namely from noses 厶 or: clouds)
When they are with their buttocks on different "clouds", it refers to: "floors".  
HSK 4
to taste (food), to try, already, ever, once
cháng
From top: small 小, cover 冖, cloud, to say 云 (It can drip from both 二, namely from noses 厶 or: clouds)
If the small (thing) on the cover tastes like a cloud, that's I want to try/taste.  
HSK 4
cloud, to say sth.
yún
Top: two 二 (here: image of clouds), bottom: nose 厶
It can drip from both, namely from noses or: clouds.  
HSK 5
to compensate for, repay, reimburse, fulfill (hopes etc)
cháng
Left: person 亻, right: taste(food) 尝 (If the small 小 under the cover 冖 tastes like a cloud 云, that's I want to: try/taste.) [cloud 云 = It can drip from both 二, namely from noses 厶 or: clouds]
The person tasted the food and will compensate the cost.  
HSK 6
earthen jar, altar
tán
Left: earth 土, right: cloud 云 (It can drip from both 二, namely from noses 厶 or: clouds)
Use earth (=clay) and (water from the) cloud to you make a jar.  
HSK 6
soul, spirit
hún
Left: cloud 云 (It can drip from both 二, namely from noses 厶 or: clouds), right: devil 鬼 (death mask [accent ノ, Field 田], legs 儿, nose 厶)
The cloud next to the devil is his soul.  
HSK 6
to brew
yùn
Left: alcohol 酉, right: cloud 云 (It can drip from both 二, namely from noses 厶 or: clouds)
When alcohol makes clouds, then during the brewing.  
no HSK
common rue (Ruta graveolens), books and libraries
yún
Top: plant 艹, bottom: cloud 云 (It can drip from both 二, namely from noses 厶 or: clouds)
A plant that spreads like a cloud (through the twisting shoots) is the rue/bean.  

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