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): ㄔㄨㄣ ㄇㄥˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): ceon¹ mung⁶

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: chūnmèng
    • Zhuyin: ㄔㄨㄣ ㄇㄥˋ
    • 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

1. (literally) spring dream
2. (figurative) short-lived occurrence; brief moment of joy; transient joy
3. (figurative) ephemeral illusion; pipe dream
4. (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): [ɕɨ̃ᵝmːɯ̟ᵝ]

Noun

春(しゅん)夢(む) • (shunmu) 

1. (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)

2. (literary, figurative) short-lived occurrence; brief moment of joy; transient joy