云 (yún) means Cloud (say). Below are 10 sentences on this site that use it — with pinyin, an English translation and audio. All of them were written by hand; none is machine generated.
Dictionary examples
今天天上的 云 很白。
Jīntiān tiān shàng de yún hěn bái.
The clouds in the sky are very white today.
Dictionary example · HSK 4 · 云
云 后面出来了太阳。
Yún hòumiàn chūlái le tàiyáng.
The sun came out from behind the clouds.
Dictionary example · HSK 4 · 云
天上飘着几朵 云 。
Tiān shàng piāo zhe jǐ duǒ yún.
A few clouds are drifting in the sky.
Dictionary example · HSK 5 · 飘
云 慢慢向东移动。
Yún mànmàn xiàng dōng yídòng.
The clouds are slowly moving east.
Dictionary example · HSK 5 · 移动
天上飘着几朵白 云 。
Tiān shàng piāo zhe jǐ duǒ báiyún.
A few white clouds are drifting in the sky.
Dictionary example · HSK 5 · 朵
云 的形状一直在变。
Yún de xíngzhuàng yìzhí zài biàn.
The shape of the clouds keeps changing.
Dictionary example · HSK 5 · 形状
天边的 云 变成了紫色。
Tiānbiān de yún biàn chéng le zǐsè.
The clouds on the horizon turned purple.
Dictionary example · HSK 5 · 紫
夕阳把 云 彩染成了金色。
Xīyáng bǎ yúncai rǎn chéng le jīnsè.
The setting sun dyed the clouds gold.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 染
天边的乌 云 是下雨的预兆。
Tiānbiān de wūyún shì xià yǔ de yùzhào.
The dark clouds on the horizon are a sign of rain.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 预兆
这些数据储存在 云 端的服务器上。
Zhèxiē shùjù chǔcún zài yúnduān de fúwùqì shang.
This data is stored on servers in the cloud.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 储存
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Questions about 云
How is 云 used in a sentence?
This page shows 10 sentences using 云 (yún, "Cloud (say)"), each with pinyin, an English translation and audio. Every one of them was written by hand for this site.
Are these sentences machine generated?
No. They come from the site's own dictionary examples, graded readers, travel phrasebook and grammar library — all written by a person. A word with no sentence gets no page here, rather than a page of invented ones.
Why do some sentences show 云 inside a longer word?
Because that is where a single character usually lives. Seeing 云 inside the words it builds is how the character stops being an isolated symbol and starts being something you can read.
Is 云 an HSK word?
Yes — 云 is on the official HSK 4 vocabulary list, and you can study it with the rest of that list on the HSK 4 page.
Where can I see the full entry for 云?
The dictionary page for 云 has its stroke order, its traditional form, every sense the dictionary lists and a character-by-character breakdown. It is linked at the top of this page.
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