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Kotomora

華か胥しょ

か
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Meanings

1

noun

ideal land; perfect country; utopia

A classical Chinese allusion to a dream of an ideal realm. Used in literary or philosophical contexts to refer to a perfect, imaginary land.

2

noun

afternoon nap

Derived from the same classical story, where the Yellow Emperor dreamed of the ideal land during a nap. Rarely used in modern Japanese; mostly encountered in literary or historical contexts.