幻

Meaning

幻 centers on things that seem real but are not: illusions, visions, dreams, and apparitions. It captures the fleeting, unreal quality of phantasms.

• 幻想げんそう
  N1

  fantasy; illusion; vision; dream

• 幻まぼろし
  N1

  phantom; vision; illusion; apparition

• 幻覚げんかく
  N1

  hallucination; illusion

• 幻影げんえい

  phantom; vision; illusion

• 幻冬舎げんとうしゃ

  Gentosha Inc.

• 夢幻むげん

  dreams; fantasy; visions

• 幻滅げんめつ

  disillusionment; disillusion; disenchantment

• 幻聴げんちょう

  auditory hallucination

• 変幻へんげん

  transformation

• 幻惑げんわく

  fascination; bewitchment; entrancement; dazzlement

• 幻視げんし

  visual hallucination; vision

• 幻術げんじゅつ

  magic; sorcery; wizardry; witchcraft

• 幻想曲げんそうきょく

  fantasy; fantasia

• 幻灯げんとう

  slide (used for projection)

• 入眠時幻覚にゅうみんじげんかく

  hypnagogic hallucination

• 変幻出没へんげんしゅつぼつ

  being protean and elusive; appear and disappear like a phantom

• 変幻自在へんげんじざい

  phantasmagoric; protean; shape-shifting; kaleidoscopic; capable of ever-changing appearance

• 夢幻泡影むげんほうよう

  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

  transient; ephemeral; fleeting; evanescent

• 夢幻的むげんてき

  dreamlike; dreamy; phantasmagorical

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