Illustration: In a quiet Japanese apartment at dusk, a child sits beside a small goldfish bowl and gazes upward in wonder. An enormous translucent goldfish appears to swim through the room, its flowing tail passing directly through a closed cupboard and its body hovering above the floor.

JLPT N1nounLevel estimated by Bebop

幻げん想そう

gensou

fantasy, illusion

Example sentences

  1. 現実げんじつと幻想げんそうを区別くべつするのは難むずかしい。

    Reality and fantasy are hard to distinguish.

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  2. あなたの考かんがえはいわば幻想げんそうにすぎません。

    Your idea is, as it were, a castle in the air.

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  3. 安全あんぜんなんて幻想げんそうだ。

    Safety is an illusion.

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Kanji in 幻想

  • 幻phantasm; visionOnゲンKunまぼろし
  • 想idea; thoughtOnソウ・ソKunおもう

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