yun

Yun is a transliteration used for several unrelated uses in East Asia and beyond. In Chinese, yun is the pinyin reading for 云 in simplified form and 雲 in traditional form, meaning cloud. As a semantic element, it appears in many given names and place names. It is common in Chinese female names, though it can occur in male names as well. In addition, 云/雲 can be found as a rare Chinese surname.

In Korean contexts, Yun is the standard romanization of the surname 윤, one of the common family names in Korea. It is also used in given names and may be rendered as Yun or Yoon in English.

In geography, Yun occurs as the first syllable in several place names, notably Yunnan (云南), a southwestern Chinese province whose name means "South of the Clouds." The syllable also appears in other toponyms and cultural terms.

Notable people and fictional characters named Yun come from Chinese- and Korean-language media and histories, reflecting the name's cross-cultural use.

See also Yoon (surname) and 云/云 (Chinese character).