A name from a poem
雲間
Pinyin yún jiānSimplified 云间for anyone
A great river threading the clouds — toward farther places still.
What’s wished for
The Yellow River climbing far into white cloud — Wang Zhihuan’s Liangzhou lyric. Dreams that reach the cloud line.
Where it comes from
黄河远上白云间
huáng hé yuǎn shàng bái yún jiān
“The Yellow River rises far up among the white clouds;”
— Wang Zhihuan, “Liangzhou Song (Beyond Yumen Pass)” (凉州词)
About the two characters
- 雲
- cloud; what gathers and drifts above
- 間
- between, among
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