莊周夢蝶

Zhuangzi 莊子|庄子[Zhuang1 zi3] dreams of a butterfly (or is it the butterfly dreaming of Zhuangzi?)

Characters and words in 莊周夢蝶

surname Zhuang

= + 广 : Julian Giant Squid (zhu) is landing with his parachute (广) next to a farmstead (庄) in front of the anglepod (ang1). He is really bad at parachuting though and lands directly in the farms dung hill (土).
farmstead / village / manor / place of business / banker (in a gambling game) / grave or solemn / holdings of a landlord (in imperial China)

= + 广 : Julian Giant Squid (zhu) is landing with his parachute (广) next to a farmstead (庄) in front of the anglepod (ang1). He is really bad at parachuting though and lands directly in the farms dung hill (土).
same as Zhuangzi 莊子|庄子[Zhuang1 zi3] (369-286 BC), Daoist author
surname Zhou / Zhou Dynasty (1046-256 BC)
to make a circuit / to circle / circle / circumference / lap / cycle / complete / all / all over / thorough / to help financially

= + + : Mnemonic symbol: a hula hoop. James II of England (zh) performs in front of the outhouse (ou1): he swings a hula hoop (周), juggles three mandarins (口) and balances a small heap of dirt (土) on his head. He cheated a little bit though, because he stapled the heap of dirt to his wig with a stapler (⺆).
week / weekly / variant of 周[zhou1]
dream / CL:場|场[chang2],個|个[ge4] / (bound form) to dream

= + : Mahatma Gandhi (m) once had a very strange dream (梦). He was occupying the engine's toilet ((e)ng4) and saw bats (夕) sitting in the forest trees (林) surrounding him. Suddenly he came to the realization that just like the bats occupying the trees, people could reclaim the streets through sit-ins. Gandhi was so impressed by this dream that he dedicated his life to this mission.
variant of 蝶[die2]

= + : Dorothy Gale (di) pursues a very special hobby in the elevator's kitchen (e2). She has a large wooden desk (枼) with lots of watercolors. Whenever a mosquito (虫) lands on her desk, she colors it with her watercolors very carefully and thus changes it into a butterfly (蝶). Dorothy is very popular with the mosquitoes.
(bound form) butterfly

= + : Dorothy Gale (di) pursues a very special hobby in the elevator's kitchen (e2). She has a large wooden desk (枼) with lots of watercolors. Whenever a mosquito (虫) lands on her desk, she colors it with her watercolors very carefully and thus changes it into a butterfly (蝶). Dorothy is very popular with the mosquitoes.

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