U+4E91 "云" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
云
U+4E91 "云" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that traditionally means "cloud" and is also used in classical contexts to mean "to say" or "to speak." As one of the oldest and most common Chinese characters, it appears in various compounds and phrases, such as "云彩" (yún cai) for "cloud" in modern Mandarin or "诗云" (shī yún) in literary references meaning "the poem says." The character is composed of two simple strokes in its simplified form, reflecting its ancient pictographic origins that evoke the shape of drifting clouds. It is a foundational component in many other complex characters and holds cultural significance in Chinese poetry, philosophy, and everyday language.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+4E91 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| Block | CJK Unified Ideographs |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 云 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 云 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE4 0xBA 0x91 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x4E91 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00004E91 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u4e91 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kBigFive | A4AA |
| kCCCII | 213056 |
| kCNS1986 | 1-4469 |
| kCNS1992 | 1-4469 |
| kCangjie | MMI |
| kCantonese | wan4 |
| kCihaiT | 63.602 |
| kCowles | 5031 |
| kDaeJaweon | 0178.010 |
| kDefinition | say, speak; clouds |
| kEACC | 275F54 |
| kFanqie | 王分 |
| kFenn | 875F |
| kFennIndex | 656.02 |
| kFourCornerCode | 1073.1 |
| kGB0 | 5238 |
| kGB1 | 8893 |
| kGSR | 0460a |
| kHangul | 운:0E |
| kHanYu | 10384.020 |
| kHanyuPinlu | yún(207) |
| kHanyuPinyin | 10384.020:yún |
| kHKGlyph | 0050 |
| kIICore | AGTJHKMP |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 0178.010 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 10384.020 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0086.080 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-5446 |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-A4AA |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-313E |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP0-FBA1 |
| kIRG_KSource | K0-6976 |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-4469 |
| kIRG_VSource | V1-4A53 |
| kJapanese | ウン いう ここに |
| kJinmeiyoKanji | 2010 |
| kKoreanEducationHanja | 2007 |
| kTGH | 2013:82 |
| kJapaneseKun | IU |
| kJapaneseOn | UN |
| kJis0 | 1730 |
| kKangXi | 0086.080 |
| kKarlgren | 291 |
| kKorean | WUN |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 0061 |
| kMandarin | yún |
| kMatthews | 7745 |
| kMeyerWempe | 3756a |
| kMojiJoho | MJ006441 |
| kMorohashi | 00254 |
| kNelson | 0274 |
| kPhonetic | 332 1298 1441 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+1248+7.2.2 |
| kRSUnicode | 7.2 |
| kSBGY | 110.11 |
| kSimplifiedVariant | "云" U+4E91 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 12.12 81.15 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | yún粵wan4 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 0061 |
| kTang | *hiuən hiuən |
| kTGHZ2013 | 454.060,454.070:yún |
| kTotalStrokes | 4 |
| kTraditionalVariant | "云" U+4E91 CJK Unified Ideograph-# "雲" U+96F2 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kUnihanCore2020 | GHJKMPT |
| kVietnamese | vân |
| kXerox | 250:144 |
| kXHC1983 | 1431.040:yún |