







水月镜像 is a Chinese idiom (chengyu) meaning “something illusory, ephemeral, or unreal”. A beautiful but insubstantial vision or illusion, like the moon reflected in water or an image in a mirror. Literally, “moon in water, image in mirror”.

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Open the tool →水月镜像 (shuǐ yuè jìng xiàng) is a Chinese idiom (chengyu) meaning “something illusory, ephemeral, or unreal”.
水月镜像 is pronounced shuǐ yuè jìng xiàng in Mandarin Chinese.
Literally, 水月镜像 means “moon in water, image in mirror”. It is used to mean “something illusory, ephemeral, or unreal”.
水中月,镜中像。指一切虚幻的影像。比喻诗中的空灵意境