Chinese Character Wiki
梦

mèng

dream

Simplified form of 夢. Phonosemantic compound. 瞢 represents the sound and 夕 represents the meaning.

Components
林 simplified component

林  Simplified component

lín

  

forest

Shorthand for the 瞢 component in the traditional character 夢.

夕 meaning component

夕  Meaning component

xī

  

evening

Evolution

梦 Oracle script (~1250-1000 BC)

Oracle script

(~1250-1000 BC)
梦 Bronze script Mid Western Zhou (~900 BC)

Bronze script

Mid Western Zhou (~900 BC)
梦 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
梦 Clerical script Western Jin dynasty (266-316 AD)

Clerical script

Western Jin dynasty (266-316 AD)
梦 Traditional script Modern

Traditional script

Modern
梦 Simplified script Modern

Simplified script

Modern
Definitions

梦 (夢) 

mèng

dream; visionary; wishful; CL:場|场[cháng],個|个[gè]; (bound form) to dream

Most common words with 梦
Freq.
Word
Meaning

梦

dream

梦想

dream

做梦

to dream

噩梦

nightmare

梦幻

dream

Statistics

HSK level 4

Appears in 54.9896% of movies

600th most common character in movies

865th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

11

Traditional

夢

Unicode

U+68A6


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