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