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梦幻 (mèng huàn) — dream, fantasy, illusion (often in a figurative or poetic sense)

Definition

梦幻 is the poetic 'dreamlike / fantastical' — used to describe a scene, world, or mood, not literal sleep. Compare 幻想 (an act of fantasizing) and 幻觉 (a perceptual hallucination); 梦幻 names a quality, not a mental event.

noun
dreamfantasyillusion (often in a figurative or poetic sense)

Examples

  • 梦幻。
    Zhè ge huā yuán měi dé xiàng yì chǎng mèng huàn.
    This garden is as beautiful as a dream.
  • ，梦幻。
    Tā zǒng ài huàn xiǎng, nǎo zi lǐ dōu shì mèng huàn.
    He always loves to fantasize; his mind is full of dreams.
  • 梦幻。
    Zhè bù diàn yǐng chuàng zào le yí gè mèng huàn bān de shì jiè.
    This movie created a dreamlike world.

Origin

Compound word
构词法gòucífǎ
联合liánhéCoordinate

Two parts of equal weight, alike or opposite in meaning, standing side by side.

梦mèngdream
幻huànillusion

The 梦 sense of dream and the 幻 sense of illusion combine to mean a dreamlike fantasy.

Characters in this word

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 夢; 梦 is its simplified writing.

Meaning part形符xíngfú
夕夕xī
Sound part声符shēngfú
瞢
瞢méng夢mèng
Same sound today

The traditional form 夢 pairs 夕 (night) with 瞢, which gives the sound; its older form showed a person lying with an eye emphasized.

Open 梦 →

No reliable origin is recorded for this character.

Open 幻 →
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