Kanji N2

雲: cloud

雲 is a JLPT N2 kanji meaning cloud, written with 12 strokes. It is read ウン (on) and くも (kun). Children in Japan learn it in grade 2. You will see it in 雲 (くも, cloud) and 暗雲 (あんうん, dark clouds).

雲

Meanings

  • cloud
Strokes12
JLPT levelN2
School gradeGrade 2
Frequency#1256 of 2,500

On reading · Kun reading

On reading
  • ウン

On'yomi: from Chinese, written in katakana. Used in compound words.

Kun reading
  • くも
  • -ぐも

Kun'yomi: native Japanese, in hiragana. The faint part is the okurigana, written in kana after the kanji.

Watch the stroke order

Every stroke in order, the live one in vermilion. Replay as often as you like.

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Now draw it

Trace each stroke in order. Wrong direction or wrong order gets flagged right away.

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Common words with 雲

The most useful words written with it, easiest first. Every other kanji in them opens its own page.

  • 雲くも

    cloud

    JLPT N4
  • 暗雲あんうん

    dark clouds

  • 青雲せいうん

    blue sky

  • 雲行きくもゆき

    weather; look of the sky

  • 風雲ふううん

    winds and clouds; nature; the elements

  • 雨雲あまぐも

    rain cloud

  • 雲泥の差うんでいのさ

    wide difference; a world of difference

  • 星雲せいうん

    nebula

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Stroke order from KanjiVG © Ulrich Apel, CC BY-SA 3.0. Readings, meanings and words from KANJIDIC2 and JMdict, names from JMnedict, © EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0, and Wikidata, CC0; the Spanish meanings they lack, translated by Naraio from their English, are shared under the same licence. Example sentences from Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR. JLPT lists after Jonathan Waller (tanos.co.uk), CC BY. Sentences split into words with IPADIC © NAIST and IPA, through Lindera.