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(yǒu yún) - cloudy in Mandarin

yǒuyún

Traditional: 有云

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Translation

cloudy

Stroke order

Stroke order for 有

Stroke order for 云

Examples

It's cloudy today, but it won't rain.

It will be cloudy tomorrow afternoon.

There are clouds in the sky, it looks like it's about to rain.

It's windy and cloudy today, remember to bring a jacket.

The weekend weather forecast says it will be cloudy.

有云 (yǒuyún) means cloudy, built the same way as 有风 (yǒufēng, windy) and 下雨 (xiàyǔ, to rain): the verb 有 (yǒu, to have, there is) plus an object, here 云 (yún, cloud). Mandarin weather words are mostly built this way rather than as adjectives.

有云 (yǒuyún) does not tell you whether it will rain. It just says there are clouds about; 阴天 (yīntiān), "overcast day", is the stronger word for a fully grey sky, and 下雨 (xiàyǔ) is separate again for actual rain. A weather report can string several of these together, for example 有风有云 (yǒufēng yǒuyún) for "windy and cloudy".

Because 云 (yún, cloud) is a mass noun, you never count clouds with 有云 the way you might in English ("a cloud", "some clouds"); the sentence just states that cloud is present.

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This word is part of lesson 109.