cloudy

1. Origins, structure, and basic meaning

• Structure: 曇 has 16 strokes and is associated with the sky or a surface becoming cloudy or unclear.
• Basic usage: 曇る is read くもる, and 曇り is read くもり.

2. Common pitfalls and similar expressions

• A change and the name of a state
  • 空が曇って describes the sky becoming cloudy. In 眼鏡が曇った, the change is glasses fogging up.
  • 曇り is a noun for cloudy weather or fogging on glasses.