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Kanji for Cloud
The kanji for “cloud” is 雲, read un and written in 12 strokes. Here is what it means, how it is read, and the names it is used in.
雲
cloud
A cloud drifting freely across the sky.
12 strokes On reading ウン (un) Kun reading くも、ぐも (kumo, gumo) JLPT N2
Dictionary meanings: cloud
Readings used for names on Nazuke: un, kumo
In Japan it appears in about 218 given names in the JMnedict name dictionary, mostly in girls’ names.
Names written with 雲: Hyun 葉生雲
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