Pronunciation
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夢魂
- (literary) one's soul while in a dream; dream-soul (once believed to leave the body during dreams)
聞道漢家天子使,九華帳裡夢魂驚。 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
闻道汉家天子使,九华帐里梦魂惊。 [Classical Chinese, simp.]- From: 809 CE, Bai Juyi, Song of Everlasting Regret
- Wén dào Hàn jiā tiānzǐ shǐ, jiǔhuázhàng lǐ mènghún jīng. [Pinyin]
- Hearing that it was an emissary of the Han family's Son of Heaven, the dreaming soul was startled awake from within the resplendent tent.
若使夢魂行有跡,門前石路半成沙。 [Korean Literary Sinitic, trad.]- From: 16th century, 李玉峰 (Yi Ok-bong), 《玉峰集》
- Yak sa monghon haeng yu jeok, munjeon seongno ban seong sa. [Sino-Korean]
- If I made my dreaming self leave traces as it passed, the stone road outside your door would be half worn down to sand.
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