Kanji
曇
N2
16 strokes
Grade 8
freq #1899
cloudy weather, cloud up
On'yomi (音読み)
ドン
Kun'yomi (訓読み)
くも.る
On'yomi compounds (音読み)
悉曇
しったん
Siddham (characters)
悉曇学
しったんがく
Siddham studies
曇度
くもりど
opacity
安曇尖鼠
あずみとがりねずみ
Azumi shrew (Sorex hosonoi)
晴後曇
はれのちくもり
cloudy after fine; sunny then cloudy
悉曇文字
しったんもじ
Siddham script
高曇
たかぐもり
overcast, with high clouds
雨曇
あまぐもり
overcast weather
優曇華
うどんげ
udumbara (mythical Indian plant often identified with the cluster fig, Ficus glomerata)
Kun'yomi words (訓読み)
曇り
くもり
cloudiness; cloudy weather
曇り空
くもりぞら
cloudy sky; overcast sky
薄曇り
うすぐもり
slightly cloudy
曇る
くもる
to get cloudy; to cloud over
鳥曇り
とりぐもり
cloudy sky that appears when the migrating birds that stayed for winter and autumn in Japan leave to go north
雪曇り
ゆきぐもり
cloudy sky looking like it will snow soon
曇らせる
くもらせる
to cloud; to make dim or dull
かき曇る
かきくもる
to become overcast
顔を曇らす
かおをくもらす
to darken one's face; to assume a gloomy look
鰊曇り
にしんぐもり
cloudy weather near Hokkaido during the herrings season (from the third to the sixth lunar month)
Example sentences
桜（さくら）の花（はな）の盛（さか）りのころには、曇（くも）りでなければ風の強（かぜのつよ）い日（ひ）になりがちである。
It is apt to get either cloudy or windy when the cherry-blossoms are in full bloom.
昨日（きのう）は曇（くも）りだった。
It was cloudy yesterday.
曇（くも）ってきたようだね。
I think it's clouding up.
今日（きょう）は曇（くも）っている。
It is cloudy today.