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Kanji Detail for 幻 - "illusion"

幻

  • Meaning

    幻 means "illusion." Also associated with magic, to deceive.

    1. Illusion - Something that appears to exist but doesn't.

    2. To deceive - To fool; to trick.

  • Words using 幻

    • 幻想 げんそう Listen fantasy; illusion; vision
    • 幻覚 げんかく Listen hallucination; illusion

  • Four-character idioms with 幻

    • 変幻自在 へんげんじざい Listen phantasmagoric; protean; shape-shifting
    • 夢幻泡影 むげんほうよう Listen a dream, an illusion, a bubble, a shadow (metaphor for the transience of life)
    • 夢幻泡沫 むげんほうまつ Listen transient; ephemeral; fleeting
    • 泡沫夢幻 ほうまつむげん Listen transient; ephemeral; fleeting

  • Tattoo check: 幻

    • Verified meaning: illusion
    • Official Jōyō kanji — a standard character every Japanese reader recognises
    • Used in real Japanese given names (read げん, さちみ, まぼろし)
    • Also carries these associations: magic, to deceive

    A single kanji rarely maps one-to-one onto an English word. Read the meanings and associations above as a set — a character that fits the dictionary definition can still carry a connotation you did not intend.

  • Name readings of 幻

    Given names 幻(げん)Listen

    Surnames 幻(さちみ)Listen 幻(まぼろし)Listen

  • Compare with other kanji that mean the same thing:

  • Dictionary Citations

    The meaning above is based on the following sources:

    KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary

    phantasm; vision; dream; illusion; apparition

    Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters

    illusion, fantasy, mirage

    CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary

    fantasy

    Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data

    fantasy, illusion, mirage; imaginary

    XSZD Xuéshēng Zìdiǎn (學生字典) - Student's Dictionary

    Deceptive. Such as 譸張為幻, meaning deceiving people with absurdities. See (Book of Documents). | The false seeming true is called 幻. Such as 幻象, 幻術. Also 變幻, 幻化, meaning things change and their true nature is hard to discern.

  • Onyomi

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    gen(ゲン) ゲン

  • Kunyomi

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    maboroshi(まぼろし) まぼろし

  • Strokes

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    4 strokes

  • Radical

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    幺 (itogashira・yo)

  • Related Keywords

    illusion magic to deceive deception fraud phantom vision apparition chimera delusion dream fantasy hallucination imaginary mirage surreal unreal ethereal ghost

Sentences including 幻

  • We were disillusioned with the result.

  • She says she is seeing things.

  • I was disillusioned at his married life.

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