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白云

báiyún

white cloud

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

01

white cloud

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 白云 actually appears in real sentences.

These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 白云 appears in 5 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.

一朵白云在蓝天上飘。yī duǒ bái yún zài lán tiān shàng piāo。

A white cloud is floating in the blue sky.

我见到一片白云在空中飘过。wǒ jiàn dào yī piàn bái yún zài kōng zhōng piāo guò。

I saw a white cloud sailing across the sky.

一片一片的白云在上空飘过。yī piàn yī piàn de bái yún zài shàng kōng piāo guò。

Fluffy white clouds drift across the sky one by one.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 白云.

Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 白云.

Directly before

  • 的白云2
  • 一片白云1
  • 一朵白云1
  • 一团白云1

Directly after

  • 白云在3
ABOUT THIS ENTRY

Where this entry comes from

The HSK level, part of speech, and pronunciation come from the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus. The English definitions come from CC-CEDICT. Corpus sentences, collocations, and the frequency figure come from the Tatoeba Chinese sentence export and are counted rather than written, so nothing on this page is invented. Usage notes and the hand-written examples that appear higher up exist only for a handful of entries.

Definitions from CC-CEDICT, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Vocabulary levels and parts of speech from the HSK 3.1 syllabus. This compiled dictionary is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

COMMON QUESTIONS

About 白云

What does 白云 mean in Chinese?

白云 (báiyún) means white cloud.

How do you pronounce 白云?

白云 is pronounced báiyún.

Is 白云 an HSK word?

白云 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.

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