How to say it in Chinese

Dream in Chinese

dream · HSK 4

梦 mèng

Counted with 个: 一个梦 yí gè mèng

我昨晚做了一个奇怪的梦。 I had a strange dream last night.

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How do you say dream in Chinese?

Dream in Chinese is 梦 (mèng). You can also say 理想 (lǐ xiǎng), 梦想 (mèng xiǎng), 做梦 (zuò mèng).

Which word should I use?

Start with the first one: it is the easiest on the HSK list. The others say it too, often in a more formal way or for a narrower sense; each one’s page has real sentences that show how it is used.

Where do these words come from?

The CC-CEDICT dictionary’s meanings for the official HSK word list. A word is shown for an English word when that is one of its first meanings; the easiest word whose first meaning it is comes first.

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Meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Chinese often has more than one way to say a word.