(yùn) - transport; luck, fate in Mandarin
yùnTraditional: 運
Translation
transport; luck, fate
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Word origin
A phono-semantic character: the walking radical 辶 gives the meaning of moving and carrying, while 云 (yún) supplies the sound. The sense of things in motion extended to fortune and luck.
- Origin
- phono-semantic
- Root
- 辶 (walk radical) + 云 (yún, phonetic)
Stroke order
运
Examples
。
Good luck.
。
He is very lucky.
。
I like sports.
！
I wish you good luck!
。
His luck has always been bad.
运 (yùn) covers both transport and luck or fate, and appears in 幸运 (xìng yùn), lucky.
Where this fits
Appears in 4 words
Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 运.
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