红楼梦 [紅樓夢] - A Dream of Red Mansions (first completed edition 1791) by Cao Xueqin 曹雪芹[Cáo Xuě qín], one of the four great novels - Hóng lóu Mèng | Definition | ChinesePod.com

红楼梦 (紅樓夢)

Hóng lóu Mèng

Pinyin

Definition

红楼梦 (紅樓夢)

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Hóng lóu Mèng

A Dream of Red Mansions (first completed edition 1791) by Cao Xueqin 曹雪芹[Cáo Xuě qín], one of the four great novels

Character Decomposition

Related Words (20)

è mèng

1 nightmare

mèng

1 dream
2 classifier: 场 cháng
3 classifier: 个 gè
4 (bound form) to dream

mèng dào

1 to dream of
2 to dream about

mèng huàn

1 dream
2 illusion
3 reverie

mèng xiǎng

1 (fig.) to dream of
2 dream

Idioms (20)

一炮而红

yī pào ér hóng

1 to win instant success (idiom)
2 to become an instant hit

不分青红皂白

bù fēn qīng hóng zào bái

1 not distinguishing red-green or black-white (idiom)
2 not to distinguish between right and wrong

不问青红皂白

bù wèn qīng hóng zào bái

1 not distinguishing red-green or black-white (idiom)
2 not to distinguish between right and wrong

人去楼空

rén qù lóu kōng

1 the people are gone and the place is empty (idiom)
2 the sight of a deserted place brings old friends to mind
3 the place is deserted
4 the birds have flown

人生如梦

rén shēng rú mèng

1 life is but a dream (idiom)

Sample Sentences

哎，黛玉真可怜。不过《红楼梦》里我最欣赏王熙凤，八面玲珑的，没有她摆不平的事。

āi ，Dàiyù zhēn kělián 。bùguò Hónglóumèng lǐ wǒ zuì xīnshǎng Wáng Xīfèng ，bāmiànlínglóng de ，méiyǒu tā bǎibupíng de matter 。

Agh, Daiyu is really pitiable. But my favorite in "The Dream of the Red Chambers" is Wang Kangfeng. She's very slick, and comfortable in all kinds of environments. There's nothing she can't take care of.

这两件事又不冲突。”红楼梦“里林黛玉看这本书的时候，不是也得躲着看吗？

zhè liǎng jiàn shì yòu bù chōngtú 。”Hónglóumèng “lǐ Lín Dàiyù kàn zhè běn shū de shíhou ，búshì yě děi duǒ zhe kàn ma ？

They're not mutually exclusive. Didn't Lin Daiyu from Dream of the Red Chamber have to hide away to read it?

这我不能完全同意你，你说的言情、武侠，写得好的，叫做通俗文学，红楼梦、三国演义难道不是好书？

zhè wǒ bùnéng wánquán tóngyì nǐ ，nǐshuōde yán qíng 、wǔxiá ，xiě de hǎo de ，jiàozuò tōngsú wénxué ，Hónglóumèng 、Sānguóyǎnyì nándào bùshì hǎo shū ？

I can't agree with you completely on that, well-written romance and martial arts novels are called popular literature, don't you think that Dreams of Red Chamber and Romance of the Three Kingdoms are good books?