created sense approved 庄周梦蝶/莊周夢蝶 · zhuāngzhōumèngdié · Zhuangzi dreaming of a butterfly — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"
庄周梦蝶 / 莊周夢蝶
zhuāngzhōumèngdié
Zhuangzi dreaming of a butterfly
The story from the "On the Equality of Things" chapter in the book [[庄子|莊子|zhuang1 zi5]] of Zhuangzi dreaming he was a butterfly and waking to wonder if he was a man dreaming of a butterfly, or a butterfly dreaming of a man; used to describe the difficulty in distinguishing reality from illusion or the fleeting, dreamlike nature of life.
庄周 (literal) → 庄周/莊周 · zhuāngzhōu · Zhuang Zhou 梦 (literal) → 梦/夢 · mèng · to dream 蝶 (literal) → 蝶 · dié · butterfly
Changed: simplified, traditional, gloss, definition, pinyin, variant pinyin, variants, separable parts, decomposition