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幻觉 (huàn jué) — hallucination; illusion

Definition

幻觉 (huànjué) is a sensory or mental misperception of something not really there — including medical hallucinations and perceptual tricks like 错觉, but more internal than a mere mistaken impression.

noun
hallucinationillusion

Examples

  • 幻觉。
    Tā yīn wèi shēng bìng chǎn shēng le huàn jué.
    He hallucinated because of illness.
  • ，幻觉，。
    Bié dān xīn, nà zhǐ shì nǐ de huàn jué, méi rén pī píng nǐ.
    Don't worry — that's just your hallucination; no one was criticizing you.
  • 幻觉。
    Zhè fú huà de sè cǎi hé guāng xiàn huì ràng rén chǎn shēng huàn jué.
    The colors and lighting of this painting create an illusion.

Origin

Compound word
构词法gòucífǎ
偏正piānzhèngModifier + head

The first part narrows down the second: it says what kind of thing the head is.

幻huànillusory
觉juéperception

幻 (illusory) and 觉 (perception) together mean a false perception.

Characters in this word

No reliable origin is recorded for this character.

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Most characters — around four in five — are built this way: one part hints at the meaning, the other at the pronunciation.

This origin belongs to the traditional form 覺; 觉 is its simplified writing.

Meaning part形符xíngfú
見見jiànsee
Sound part声符shēngfú
𦥯
𦥯𦥯覺jué
The sound has drifted apartThe sound part was a clue two thousand years ago — it often still helps, but not always.

The traditional form 覺 pairs 見, a part that means see, with 𦥯, a part that gives the sound; simplified 觉 is a later abbreviation.

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