烏雲

See also: 乌云

Chinese

		a crow; black; not a crow; black; not; empty; void	cloud; Yunnan (abbrev.); surname
trad. (烏雲)		烏	雲
simp. (乌云)		乌	云

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Standard)
(Pinyin): wūyún

(Zhuyin): ㄨㄩㄣˊ

(Chengdu, Sichuanese Pinyin): wu¹ yun²
Cantonese (Jyutping): wu¹ wan⁴
Gan (Wiktionary): 'u¹ yn⁴
Hakka
(Sixian, PFS): vû-yùn

(Hailu, HRS): vu^ˋ rhun

(Meixian, Guangdong): vu¹ yun²
Northern Min (KCR): ú-ě̤ng
Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): ou¹ ong² / oo¹ ong² / ou¹ uong² / ou¹ uerng²
Southern Min
(Hokkien, POJ): o͘-hûn

(Teochew, Peng'im): ou¹ hung⁵
Wu (Shanghai, Wugniu): ¹u-yun

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: wūyún
  - Zhuyin: ㄨㄩㄣˊ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: wuyún
  - Wade–Giles: wu¹-yün²
  - Yale: wū-yún
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: uyun
  - Palladius: уюнь (ujunʹ)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /u⁵⁵ yn³⁵/
- (Chengdu)
  - Sichuanese Pinyin: wu¹ yun²
  - Scuanxua Ladinxua Xin Wenz: uwn
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /vu⁵⁵ yn²¹/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
  - Jyutping: wu¹ wan⁴
  - Yale: wū wàhn
  - Cantonese Pinyin: wu¹ wan⁴
  - Guangdong Romanization: wu¹ wen⁴
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /wuː⁵⁵ wɐn²¹/
Gan
- (Nanchang)
  - Wiktionary: 'u¹ yn⁴
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ˈu⁴² yn³⁵/
Hakka
- (Northern Sixian, incl. Miaoli)
  - Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: vû-yùn
  - Hakka Romanization System: vu^ˊ iun^ˇ
  - Hagfa Pinyim: vu¹ yun²
  - Sinological IPA: /vu²⁴ i̯un¹¹/
- (Southern Sixian, incl. Neipu)
  - Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: vû-yùn
  - Hakka Romanization System: vu^ˊ (r)iun^ˇ
  - Hagfa Pinyim: vu¹ yun²
  - Sinological IPA: /vu²⁴ (j)i̯un¹¹/
- (Hailu, incl. Zhudong)
  - Hakka Romanization System: vu^ˋ rhun
  - Sinological IPA: /vu⁵³ ʒun⁵⁵/
- (Meixian)
  - Guangdong: vu¹ yun²
  - Sinological IPA: /ʋu⁴⁴⁻³⁵ iun¹¹/
Northern Min
- (Jian'ou)
  - Kienning Colloquial Romanized: ú-ě̤ng
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /u⁵⁴ œyŋ²¹/
Puxian Min
- (Putian)
  - Pouseng Ping'ing: ou¹ ong² [Phonetic: ou⁵ ong²]
  - Báⁿ-uā-ci̍: o-eóng
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɔu⁵³³⁻¹¹ ɔŋ¹³/
- (Jiangkou)
  - Pouseng Ping'ing: ou¹ ong² [Phonetic: ou⁵ ong²]
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ou⁵³³⁻¹¹ ɔŋ¹³/
- (Youyang)
  - Pouseng Ping'ing: ou¹ ong² [Phonetic: ou⁵ ong²]
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ou⁵⁴⁴⁻²¹ oŋ²⁴/
- (Nanri)
  - Pouseng Ping'ing: oo¹ ong² [Phonetic: oo⁵ ong²]
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɔ⁵³³⁻¹¹ oŋ¹³/
- (Xianyou)
  - Pouseng Ping'ing: ou¹ uong² [Phonetic: ou⁵ uong²]
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɔu⁵⁴⁴⁻²¹ uoŋ²⁴/
- (Fengting)
  - Pouseng Ping'ing: ou¹ uerng² [Phonetic: ou⁵ uerng²]
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ou⁵⁴⁴⁻²¹ ɯəŋ²⁴/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: o͘-hûn
  - Tâi-lô: oo-hûn
  - Phofsit Daibuun: o'huun
  - IPA (Xiamen): /ɔ⁴⁴⁻²² hun²⁴/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /ɔ³³ hun²⁴/
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /ɔ⁴⁴⁻²² hun¹³/
  - IPA (Taipei): /ɔ⁴⁴⁻³³ hun²⁴/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /ɔ⁴⁴⁻³³ hun²³/
- (Teochew)
  - Peng'im: ou¹ hung⁵
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: ou hûng
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ou³³⁻²³ huŋ⁵⁵/
Wu
- (Northern: Shanghai)
  - Wugniu: ¹u-yun
  - MiniDict: u^平 yuin
  - Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ¹u-hhyn
  - Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /u⁵⁵ ɦyn²¹/

Middle Chinese: 'u hjun

Rime
Character	烏	雲
Reading #	1/1	1/1
Initial (聲)	影 (34)	云 (35)
Final (韻)	模 (23)	文 (59)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open	Closed
Division (等)	I	III
Fanqie	哀都切	王分切
Baxter	'u	hjun
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ʔuo/	/ɦɨun/
Pan Wuyun	/ʔuo/	/ɦiun/
Shao Rongfen	/ʔo/	/ɣiuən/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ʔɔ/	/ɦun/
Li Rong	/ʔo/	/ɣiuən/
Wang Li	/u/	/ɣĭuən/
Bernhard Karlgren	/ʔuo/	/i̯uən/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	wū	yún
Expected Cantonese Reflex	wu¹	wan⁴

Noun

烏雲

(literally, figuratively) dark clouds; clouds that bring rainfall
(literary, figuratively) women's dark hair

Synonyms

(dark clouds): 黑雲／黑云 (hēiyún)

Derived terms

烏雲密布 / 乌云密布 (wūyúnmìbù)
烏雲著頂 / 乌云著顶
烏雲蔽日 / 乌云蔽日

References

李如龙 [Li, Ru-long], 刘福铸 [Liu, Fu-zhu], 吴华英 [Wu, Hua-ying], 黄国城 [Huang, Guo-cheng] (2019) “22 黑云”, in 莆仙方言调查报告 [Investigation Report on Puxian Dialect] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), Xiamen University Press, →ISBN, page 293.