春夢

Chinese

		spring (time); gay; joyful spring (time); gay; joyful; youthful; love; lust; life	to dream
trad. (春夢)		春	夢
simp. (春梦)		春	梦

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): chūnmèng

(Zhuyin): ㄔㄨㄣㄇㄥˋ
Cantonese (Jyutping): ceon¹ mung⁶

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: chūnmèng
  - Zhuyin: ㄔㄨㄣㄇㄥˋ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: chunmèng
  - Wade–Giles: chʻun¹-mêng⁴
  - Yale: chwūn-mèng
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: chuenmenq
  - Palladius: чуньмэн (čunʹmɛn)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʈ͡ʂʰu̯ən⁵⁵ mɤŋ⁵¹/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
  - Jyutping: ceon¹ mung⁶
  - Yale: chēun muhng
  - Cantonese Pinyin: tsoen¹ mung⁶
  - Guangdong Romanization: cên¹ mung⁶
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰɵn⁵⁵ mʊŋ²²/

Noun

春夢

(literally) spring dream
(figurative) short-lived occurrence; brief moment of joy; transient joy
(figurative) ephemeral illusion; pipe dream
(figurative) sensuous dream; erotic dream

Derived terms

一場春夢 / 一场春梦
付之春夢 / 付之春梦
做春夢 / 做春梦
富貴一場春夢 / 富贵一场春梦
戰地春夢 / 战地春梦
春夢一場 / 春梦一场
春夢婆 / 春梦婆
春夢無痕 / 春梦无痕
陽臺春夢 / 阳台春梦

Descendants

Sino-Xenic (春夢):

→ Japanese: 春(しゅん)夢(む) (shunmu)

Japanese

Kanji in this term
春	夢
しゅん Grade: 2	む Grade: 5
on'yomi

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [ɕɨ̃mːɯ̟]

Noun

春(しゅん)夢(む) • (shunmu)

(literary) spring dream
- 岑参, 『春夢』, kanbun translation
  枕上片時(ちんじょうへんじ)春夢(しゅんむ)の中(うち)、行(ゆ)き尽(つ)くす江南(こうなん)の数千里(すうせんり)
  chinjō henji shunmu no uchi, yukitsukusu Kōnan no sūsenri
  (please add an English translation of this example)
(literary, figurative) short-lived occurrence; brief moment of joy; transient joy