胡蝶の夢

こちょうのゆめ

Meanings

1. Expression, Noun being half awake and half asleep (literally: butterfly's dream) (from a Taoist parable by Zhuang Zhou)

Kanji

• 胡 foreign. Read as コ.
• 蝶 butterfly. Read as チョウ.
• 夢 dream. Read as ゆめ.

Word lists

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