created sense approved 大梦/大夢 · dàmèng · illusory life — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"
大梦 / 大夢
dàmèng
illusory life
(literary) the illusory nature of life; a profound realization of the world's vanity. Derived from the philosopher [[庄子|莊子|zhuang1 zi5]] who described the human experience as a great dream from which one must eventually wake up.
大 (literal) → 大 · dà · big 梦 (literal) → 梦/夢 · mèng · dream
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created sense approved 大梦/大夢 · dàmèng · stubbornly misguided — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"
大梦 / 大夢
dàmèng
stubbornly misguided
the state of being under an illusion or stubbornly refusing to wake up to reality (often used in the phrase [[大梦初醒|大夢初醒|da4 meng4 chu1 xing3]])
大 (literal) → 大 · dà · big 梦 (literal) → 梦/夢 · mèng · dream
Changed: simplified, traditional, gloss, definition, pinyin, variant pinyin, variants, separable parts, decomposition