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镜花水月
jìng​huā​shuǐ​yuè

illusion

Origin Definitions Defs Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents
镜花水月 (鏡花水月) jìng​huā​shuǐ​yuè
illusion idiom
something that is beautiful but unattainable or ephemeral, much like flowers in a mirror or the moon's reflection in water

Frequency

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0.305 per million

Cross-References

Same as

  • 水月镜花

Sources

Definitions
CC-CEDICT
Frequency data
BCC Corpus (BLCU)
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