凌雲

Chinese

		encroach; soar; thick ice	cloud; Yunnan (abbrev.); surname
trad. (凌雲/淩雲)		凌/淩	雲
simp. (凌云)		凌	云

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): língyún

  (Zhuyin): ㄌㄧㄥˊ ㄩㄣˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): ling⁴ wan⁴
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): lêng-hûn / lêng-în

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: língyún
    • Zhuyin: ㄌㄧㄥˊ ㄩㄣˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: língyún
    • Wade–Giles: ling²-yün²
    • Yale: líng-yún
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: lingyun
    • Palladius: линъюнь (linʺjunʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /liŋ³⁵ yn³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: ling⁴ wan⁴
    • Yale: lìhng wàhn
    • Cantonese Pinyin: ling⁴ wan⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: ling⁴ wen⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /lɪŋ²¹ wɐn²¹/
    • Homophones:

      edit edit 凌雲 靈魂／灵魂

• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien: Quanzhou, General Taiwanese, Xiamen)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: lêng-hûn
    • Tâi-lô: lîng-hûn
    • Phofsit Daibuun: lenghuun
    • IPA (Quanzhou, Xiamen): /liɪŋ²⁴⁻²² hun²⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /liɪŋ²³⁻³³ hun²³/
    • IPA (Taipei): /liɪŋ²⁴⁻¹¹ hun²⁴/
  • (Hokkien: Zhangzhou)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: lêng-în
    • Tâi-lô: lîng-în
    • Phofsit Daibuun: leng'iin
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /liɪŋ¹³⁻²² in¹³/

Verb

凌雲

1. (literary) to reach the clouds; to soar to the skies

Derived terms

• 凌雲健筆／凌云健笔
• 凌雲壯志／凌云壮志
• 凌雲筆／凌云笔
• 凌雲臺／凌云台
• 凌雲閣／凌云阁
• 凌雲髻
• 壯志凌雲／壮志凌云 (zhuàngzhìlíngyún)
• 志氣凌雲／志气凌云

 

Proper noun

凌雲

1. (～縣) Lingyun (a county of Baise, Guangxi, China)

Japanese

Kanji in this term
凌	雲
りょう Jinmeiyō	うん Grade: 2
on’yomi

Alternative forms

• 陵雲

Noun

凌(りょう)雲(うん) • (ryōun) 

1. skyscraping; very high; above the clouds
2. exceeding worldly, secular things; above this mortal world; beyond petty, everyday matters

Usage notes

This noun is often used with the genitive case particle -no (-の), which makes it function as an adjective.