老鹰星云

• 耂(old person; elderly (pictographic variant))RADICAL
• 匕(spoon; curved)ASSOCIATIVE

An old person with a hunched back curved like a spoon is the image of this character.

• 鳥(bird)RADICAL
• 䧹(eagle; to supply sound and meaning)PHONO-SEMANTIC

An eagle is a powerful hunting bird that soars swiftly across the sky.

• 二(two horizontal lines (symbolizing sky))ASSOCIATIVE
• 厶(spiral shape; swirling cloud pattern)ASSOCIATIVE

Clouds curling in circles beneath the sky, the character 云 paints the shape of a cloud drifting upward.