雲うん霞か

noun

clouds and haze

Literal description of a landscape filled with clouds and mist; often used in poetic or literary descriptions.

• 山やま々やまは雲うん霞かに包つつまれていた。

  The mountains were wrapped in clouds and haze.

noun

swarm; throng; drove

Figurative use likening a large, dense crowd to clouds and haze; often appears in the set phrase 雲霞のごとく (like a swarm).

See also: 雲霞のごとく

• 雲うん霞かのごとく押おし寄よせる敵てき軍ぐん。

  The enemy army surged forward like a swarm.

adverb

like the wind; out of sight

Only with reading くもかすみ

Adverbial use with the reading くもかすみ, meaning to flee or disappear swiftly; derived from the image of vanishing into clouds and mist. Very rare and literary.

See also: 雲を霞と

• 彼かれは雲くも霞かすみと逃にげ去さった。

  He fled like the wind.