浮雲

See also: 浮云

Chinese
to float cloud; Yunnan (abbrev.); surname
trad. (浮雲) 浮 雲
simp. (浮云) 浮 云
anagram 雲浮／云浮

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 浮 雲
Reading # 1/1 1/1
Initial (聲) 並 (3) 云 (35)
Final (韻) 尤 (136) 文 (59)
Tone (調) Level (Ø) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open Closed
Division (等) III III
Fanqie 縛謀切 王分切
Baxter bjuw hjun
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /bɨu/ /ɦɨun/
Pan
Wuyun		 /biu/ /ɦiun/
Shao
Rongfen		 /biəu/ /ɣiuən/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /buw/ /ɦun/
Li
Rong		 /biu/ /ɣiuən/
Wang
Li		 /bĭəu/ /ɣĭuən/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /bʱi̯ə̯u/ /i̯uən/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 fóu yún
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex		 fau4 wan4
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 浮 雲
Reading # 1/1 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 fú yún
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ bjuw › ‹ hjun ›
Old
Chinese		 /*m.b(r)u/ /*[ɢ]ʷə[n]/
English float (v.) cloud

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 浮 雲
Reading # 1/1 1/1
No. 3346 16358
Phonetic
component		 孚 云
Rime
group		 幽 文
Rime
subdivision		 1 2
Corresponding
MC rime		 浮 雲
Old
Chinese		 /*bu/ /*ɢun/

Noun

浮雲

  1. (literary) floating cloud(s)
  2. (literary or Mainland China slang, figurative) something not worth cherishing; unimportant matter
    神馬都是浮雲／神马都是浮云  ―  shénmǎ dōu shì fúyún  ―  everything is nothing
  3. (literary, figurative) passing time
  4. (literary, figurative) evil and crafty minister
  5. (literary, figurative) life of a vagrant
  6. (literary, figurative, calligraphy) lively, flowing brushwork

Derived terms
  • 富貴如浮雲／富贵如浮云
  • 富貴浮雲／富贵浮云
  • 決浮雲／决浮云
  • 浮雲富貴／浮云富贵
  • 浮雲朝露／浮云朝露
  • 浮雲翳日／浮云翳日
  • 浮雲蔽日／浮云蔽日
  • 浮雲遊子／浮云游子
  • 浮雲驚龍／浮云惊龙
  • 神馬都是浮雲／神马都是浮云 (shénmǎ dōu shì fúyún)
  • 過眼浮雲／过眼浮云

Descendants
Sino-Xenic (浮雲):
  • → Japanese: 浮雲(ふうん) (fuun)
  • → Korean: 부운(浮雲) (buun)
  • → Vietnamese: phù vân (浮雲)

Japanese

Etymology 1
Kanji in this term
浮 雲
うき
Grade: S		 くも > ぐも
Grade: 2
kun’yomi

Shift from older ukikumo,[1][2] itself a compound of 浮(う)き (uki, “floating”) + 雲(くも) (kumo, “cloud”). The kumo changes to gumo as an instance of rendaku (連濁).

Alternative forms
  • 浮き雲

Pronunciation
  • (Tokyo) うきぐも [ùkígúmó] (Heiban – [0])[2]
  • IPA(key): [ɯ̟ᵝkʲiɡɯ̟ᵝmo̞]

Noun

浮(うき)雲(ぐも) • (ukigumo) 

  1. a drifting or floating cloud

Proverb

浮(うき)雲(ぐも) • (ukigumo) 

  1. instability

Proper noun

浮(うき)雲(ぐも) • (Ukigumo) 

  1. a novel by Futabatei Shimei (see The Drifting Cloud on Wikipedia.Wikipedia )
  2. a novel by Fumiko Hayashi

Etymology 2
Kanji in this term
浮 雲
ふ
Grade: S		 うん
Grade: 2
kan’yōon on’yomi

From Middle Chinese compound 浮雲 (MC bjuw hjun).

Pronunciation
  • (Tokyo) ふうん [fùúń] (Heiban – [0])[2]
  • IPA(key): [ɸɯ̟̃ᵝːɴ]

Noun

浮(ふ)雲(うん) • (fuun) 

  1. a drifting or floating cloud

Proverb

浮(ふ)雲(うん) • (fuun) 

  1. instability

References
  1. Matsumura, Akira (1995) 大辞泉 [Daijisen] (in Japanese), First edition, Tōkyō: Shogakukan, →ISBN
  2. Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
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