Kanji

Jōyō kanji, Taught in grade 2

JLPT level: N2

1256 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Stroke count: 12

Meaning: cloud

Kunyomi: くも -ぐも

Onyomi: ウン

Composition:

Radical

Radical:

Reading: あめかんむり

Meaning: rain

Strokes: 8

Examples

Examples with audio

海(うんかい)   sea of clouds

(あんうん)   dark clouds

積乱(せきらんうん)   cumulonimbus cloud

泥の差(うんでいのさ)   a world of difference

(くも)   cloud

行き(くもゆき)   weather, situation

(あまぐも)   rain cloud

入道(にゅうどうぐも)   cumulonimbus (cloud)

*出大社(いずもたいしゃ)   Izumo shrine

Onyomi Examples

散霧消 ウンサンムショウ vanishing like mist

ウンカイ sea of clouds

セイウン blue sky, erudition, detachment from the world, high rank

セイウン nebula, galaxy

Kunyomi Examples

くも cloud

行き くもゆき weather, look of the sky, situation, turn of affairs, signs, way the wind is blowing

しらくも white clouds

八重 やえぐも layers of clouds