随着“云时代”的到来，“云X”格式的词层出不穷，这些词的大量使用，构成了“云X”词族。“云 X”词族发端于科学技术领域，日渐成为了政治、经济、社会民生、科教文娱、网络社交等领域的日常用语。通过对“云X”词族的具体分析，可以发现这些词中的“云”产生了新含义、新用法。“云”的语义有虚化倾向，能产性强，具有语法标志的作用，且位置固定，呈现出类词缀的语法特点，因而可判定为类词缀。基于对“云X”类词语进行探究，发现“云X”中“云”的新含义可抽象为[+互联网]，“云X”词族具备虚拟化、自由化等表意特征。“云X”中“云”出现类词缀化现象，是由于隐喻机制和模因论等语言机制的内部原因以及科技发展、社会需要等外部原因。

With the advent of the "cloud era", words in the format of "Cloud X" emerge endlessly, and a large number of these words are used to form the "Cloud X" word family. "Cloud X" word family originated in the field of science and technology, and has gradually become a daily language in the fields of politics, economy, social livelihood, science, education, culture and entertainment, network and social networking. Through the specific analysis of "Cloud X" word family, it can be found that "Cloud" in these words has a new meaning and new usage. The semantic meaning of "Cloud" has a tendency of vacuity, strong productivity, the function of grammatical markers, and the position is fixed, showing the grammatical characteristics of affixes, so it can be judged as affixes. Based on the exploration of "Cloud X" class words, it is found that the new meaning of "Cloud" in "Cloud X" can be abstracted as [+ Internet], and "Cloud X" word family has the ideographic characteristics of virtualization and liberalization. The phenomenon of "Cloud" in "Cloud X" is due to the internal reasons of linguistic mechanisms such as metaphor mechanism and memetics, as well as external reasons such as technological development and social needs.