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Mythic Mandarin

梦想 (mèng xiǎng): meaning and stroke order

梦想 (mèng xiǎng) means (fig.) to dream of, dream.

梦想

Simplified
梦想
Traditional
夢想
Pinyin
mèng xiǎng

Stroke order of 梦想

梦

  • mèng dream (CL:場|场[chang2],個|个[ge4]); (bound form) to dream
  • 11 strokes
  • Traditional form: 夢

Stroke by stroke

想

  • xiǎng to think (about); to think of; to devise
  • 13 strokes

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 梦想

  1. mèng xiǎng Traditional 夢想
    • (fig.) to dream of
    • dream

Radicals of the characters

梦
Radical 木 (Kangxi radical 75) · 11 strokes · 林 on top, 夕 below
想
Radical 心 (Kangxi radical 61) · 13 strokes · 相 on top, 心 below

Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan database. Structure: the shapes a character is written with (BabelStone IDS), not necessarily parts that carry meaning or sound.

梦想 in our stories

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  • 追不上的梦想，未必就是白追的。这，或许正是这个古老神话最动人之处。

    zhuī bú shàng de mèngxiǎng wèibì jiù shì bái zhuī de zhè huòxǔ zhèngshì zhè gè gǔlǎo shénhuà zuì dòngrén zhī chù

    A dream you cannot catch up with is not necessarily chased in vain. This, perhaps, is what is most moving about this ancient myth.

    From the story Kuafu chases the sun HSK 7–9 · Level 9

  • 早上八点，他们到达了海拔八千六百米的地方，离山顶只剩两百多米，眼看七年的梦想就要实现了。

    zǎoshang bā diǎn tāmen dàodá le hǎibá bāqiānliùbǎi mǐ de dìfang lí shāndǐng zhǐ shèng liǎngbǎi duō mǐ yǎnkàn qī nián de mèngxiǎng jiù yào shíxiàn le

    At eight in the morning they reached an altitude of 8,600 metres, only just over two hundred metres from the summit; seven years' dream was about to come true.

    From the story Two hundred metres from the summit HSK 7–9 · Level 9

Stories using 梦想

Dictionary data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Stroke data: Hanzi Writer data, derived from Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License). Animation: Hanzi Writer (MIT licence). Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan (Unicode License v3).