运
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to move; to transport; to use; to apply; fortune; luck; fate
Formation & memory
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How to remember it
carry · Heisig RSH #429
road + rising cloud
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Words with 运
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 学生运动 | student movement | |
| 水上运动 | water sports; aquatic motion; movement over water | |
| 城市运动会 | National Intercity Games, Chinese athletics competition, organized every four years since … | |
| 新文化运动 | the New Culture Movement (mid-1910s and 1920s), intellectual revolution against Confuciani… | |
| 运动学 | kinematics | |
| 运动家 | athlete; sportsman; activist | |
| 运动会 | sports competition; CL:個|个[ge4] | |
| 运动相机 | action camera | |
| 全国运动会 | National Games, Chinese athletics competition, organized every four years since 1959 | |
| 东亚运动会 | East Asian Games | |
| 运城市 | Yuncheng, prefecture-level city in Shanxi Province 山西省[Shan1 xi1 Sheng3] | |
| 大运 | World University Games (formerly "Universiade") (abbr. for 大學生運動會|大学生运动会[Da4 xue2 sheng1 Y… | |
| 大运 | a stroke of luck | |
| 国运 | fate of the nation | |
| 水运 | waterborne transport | |
| 亚运会 | Asian Games | |
| 学运 | student movement | |
| 运行时 | (computing) runtime | |
| 城运会 | abbr. for 城市運動會|城市运动会[Cheng2 shi4 Yun4 dong4 hui4] | |
| 大运河 | the Grand Canal, 1800 km from Beijing to Hangzhou, built starting from 486 BC |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 云 — compare how they read.