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

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:
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    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

(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

(～縣) Lingyun (a county of Baise, Guangxi autonomous region, China)

Japanese

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

Alternative spelling
陵雲

Pronunciation

(Tokyo) りょーうん [ryòóúń] (Heiban – [0])
IPA^(key): [ɾʲo̞ːɯ̟̃ɴ]

Noun

凌(りょう)雲(うん) • (ryōun) ^{←りよううん (ryouun)^?}

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

Usage notes

This noun is commonly used adjectivally with the particle の (no).

References

“^▲凌雲”, in 漢字ぺディア [Kanjipedia]‎^[1] (in Japanese), The Japan Kanji Aptitude Testing Foundation, 2015–2025