TSUMUGU · TOCFL B1 (est.) · 字
雲
雲 ＝ 雨 ＋ 云
ㄩㄣˊ · yún
noun — a cloud
字源 FORM — what the parts do
云聲yún — gives the sound; itself the old picture of a curling cloud
Rain-weather (雨) over 云 yún, which carries the sound and is itself the older graph — two curling lines of rising vapor. Rain added on top fixed it to the sky: the cloud (雲朵), and what is cloudlike or far aloft (雲端).
故事 STORY — a scene to remember it by
兩道水氣（云）打著捲往上飄，頂上壓著一層雨（雨）。
Two curls of vapor (云) spiral upward, a layer of rain-weather (雨) pressing down on top.
字源記憶法
意 · Meanings
(本義)雲、雲朵— a cloud常用
→多雲、雲彩— cloudy; the coloured clouds
⇒雲端— the cloud, up aloft — the figurative high reach
(本義) original meaning · → ⇒ each arrow = one more step of extension
關 · Related
云yúnthe original graph — 云 is the bare curling vapor, 雲 caps it with rain 雪＝ ＋ 彗xuěthe lookalike — both wear rain , but 雪 holds a hand-broom 彐 beneath