{"path":"/entry/110457","title":"镜花水月 / 鏡花水月 (jìng huā shuǐ yuè) — Chinese Dictionary | Flashbao","description":"镜花水月 / 鏡花水月 (jìng huā shuǐ yuè): literally flowers in a mirror and the moon reflected in the lake (idiom). Explore meanings, example sentences and vocabulary decks.","catalog":null,"deck":null,"entry":{"reading":{"id":110457,"orthography":{"forms":{"SIMPLIFIED":["镜花水月"],"TRADITIONAL":["鏡花水月"]}},"phonetic":"jìng huā shuǐ yuè","phoneticKey":"jing4 hua1 shui3 yue4","meanings":{"primary":[{"qualifier":null,"synonyms":[{"segments":[{"dim":false,"runs":[{"kind":"TEXT","text":"literally flowers in a mirror and the moon reflected in the lake ","orthography":null,"phonetic":null,"phoneticKey":null,"readingId":null}]},{"dim":true,"runs":[{"kind":"TEXT","text":"(idiom)","orthography":null,"phonetic":null,"phoneticKey":null,"readingId":null}]}]}]},{"qualifier":null,"synonyms":[{"segments":[{"dim":false,"runs":[{"kind":"TEXT","text":"figuratively an unrealistic rosy view","orthography":null,"phonetic":null,"phoneticKey":null,"readingId":null}]}]}]},{"qualifier":null,"synonyms":[{"segments":[{"dim":false,"runs":[{"kind":"TEXT","text":"viewing things through rose-tinted spectacles","orthography":null,"phonetic":null,"phoneticKey":null,"readingId":null}]}]}]},{"qualifier":null,"synonyms":[{"segments":[{"dim":false,"runs":[{"kind":"TEXT","text":"also written ","orthography":null,"phonetic":null,"phoneticKey":null,"readingId":null},{"kind":"REF","text":null,"orthography":{"forms":{"SIMPLIFIED":["水月镜花"],"TRADITIONAL":["水月鏡花"]}},"phonetic":null,"phoneticKey":null,"readingId":null}]}]}]}],"additional":[],"notes":[],"variantMeanings":[]},"classifiers":[],"pos":["NOUN","ADVERB"],"frequency":null,"grammar":[],"spokenPhonetic":null},"otherReadings":[],"examples":[],"carriedReadings":[],"constructions":[],"status":null,"due":null,"reps":null,"lapses":null,"lastReview":null,"senses":[{"label":null,"relations":[{"kind":"SYNONYM","readingId":64291,"orthography":{"forms":{"SIMPLIFIED":["海市蜃楼"],"TRADITIONAL":["海市蜃樓"]}},"phonetic":"hǎi shì shèn lóu","gloss":{"simplified":"(idiom) (literally and figuratively) mirage","traditional":null}},{"kind":"SYNONYM","readingId":80645,"orthography":{"forms":{"SIMPLIFIED":["空中楼阁"],"TRADITIONAL":["空中樓閣"]}},"phonetic":"kōng zhōng lóu gé","gloss":{"simplified":"pavilion in the air (idiom)","traditional":null}}],"primary":true}],"origins":[{"literal":"flower in the mirror, moon on the water","content":[{"type":"paragraph","text":{"simplified":"From metaphors common in Mahāyāna Buddhism, especially in the Prajñāpāramitā literature: Sanskrit प्रतिबिम्ब (pratibimba, “reflected image”) and दकचन्द्र (dakacandra, literally “water-moon”). Early attestations in Chinese include the translation of the Pañcaviṃśatisāhasrikā Prajñāpāramitāsūtra by the Khotanese monk Mokṣala (無羅叉) [291]. The following attestations are from the works of Kumārajīva:","traditional":null}},{"type":"paragraph","text":{"simplified":"像 (xiàng, “image”) in the original literature has been modified to 花 (huā, “flower”), mostly for poetic purposes.","traditional":null}}],"examples":[{"text":{"simplified":"若非色之物，则异今事。如镜中像，水中月，见如有色，而无触等，则非色也。","traditional":"若非色之物，則異今事。如鏡中像，水中月，見如有色，而無觸等，則非色也。"},"phonetic":"Ruò fēisè zhī wù, zé yì jīn shì. Rú jìng zhōng xiàng， shuǐ zhōng yuè, jiàn rú yǒu sè, ér wú chù děng, zé fēisè yě.","english":"If it is a formless object, then it is different from the matters of today. It is like an image in the mirror or the moon in the water, which appear to have a form but cannot be touched and such; these are formless.","ref":"Late 4th century–early 5th century, Hui Yuan (慧遠) and Kumārajīva (鳩摩羅什 (Jiūmóluóshí)), The Correspondences of Hui Yuan and Kumārajīva (《鳩摩羅什法師大義》), T1856"},{"text":{"simplified":"解了诸法，如幻，如焰，如水中月，如虚空，如响，如揵闼婆城，如梦，如影，如镜中像，如化。","traditional":"解了諸法，如幻，如焰，如水中月，如虛空，如響，如揵闥婆城，如夢，如影，如鏡中像，如化。"},"phonetic":"Jiěliǎo zhū fǎ, rú huàn, rú yàn, rú shuǐ zhōng yuè, rú xūkōng, rú xiǎng, rú qiántàpó chéng, rú mèng, rú yǐng, rú jìng zhōng xiàng, rú huà.","english":"Understanding all the dharmas is like fantasy, like a flame, like the moon in the water, like vanity, like an echo, like the (illusive) city of the gandharvas, like a dream, like a shadow, like an image in the mirror, like change.","ref":"c. 404, Kumārajīva (鳩摩羅什 (Jiūmóluóshí)), trans. The Mahāprajñāpāramitā Sūtra (《摩訶般若波羅蜜經》), T0223"}],"senseScoped":false}],"decks":[{"id":27,"sourceName":"Chengyu","name":"Chengyu"}],"vocabularyScale":null,"vocabularyLevel":null}}