幻影
Chinese
fantasy | picture; image; reflection picture; image; reflection; shadow | ||
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simp. and trad. (幻影) |
幻 | 影 |
Pronunciation
Japanese
Kanji in this term | |
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幻 | 影 |
げん Grade: S |
えい Grade: S |
on’yomi |
Etymology
From Middle Chinese 幻影 (gwæn ʔjængX, literally “illusion, mirage + shadow”). Compare Mandarin 幻影 (huànyǐng).
Noun
幻影 • (gen'ei)
- an illusion, a vision
- 2000 January 27, “幻想師・ノー・フェイス [Illusionist No Face]”, in Vol.7, Konami:
- 幻影を見せ、ひらりと攻撃をかわす。
- Gen'ei o mise, hirari to kōgeki o kawasu.
- It nimbly evades attacks with its illusions.
- 幻影を見せ、ひらりと攻撃をかわす。
- the image of something, such as in a memory or imagination
- (medicine) a phantom, a phantasm: a perception of something that is not there
Derived terms
Derived terms
- 幻影化 (gen'eika): (medicine) to phantomize
- 幻影肢 (gen'eishi): (medicine) a phantom limb
- 幻影視 (gen'eishi): (medicine, rare) phantasmoscopy, phantasmoscopia: seeing phantoms
References
- Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
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