Chinese symbol for “daydream”
空想
kōng xiǎng
daydream; fantasy; to fantasize
The closest CC-CEDICT match for daydream is 空想 (kōng xiǎng), defined as: daydream; fantasy; to fantasize.
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Characters and stroke order
Other Chinese words for “daydream”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 白日梦 (白日夢) | bái rì mèng | daydream; reverie |
| 白日做梦 (白日做夢) | bái rì zuò mèng | to daydream; to indulge in wishful thinking |
| 痴想 | chī xiǎng | to daydream; wishful thinking |
| 遐想 | xiá xiǎng | reverie; daydream |
Related words
Other words that share a character with 空想.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 空间 (空間) | kōng jiān | space; room; (fig.) scope; leeway |
| 航空 | háng kōng | aviation |
| 空气 (空氣) | kōng qì | air; atmosphere |
| 天空 | tiān kōng | sky |
| 空中 | kōng zhōng | in the sky; in the air |
| 太空 | tài kōng | outer space |
| 想要 | xiǎng yào | to want to; to feel like |
| 思想 | sī xiǎng | thought; thinking |
See also: Japanese symbol for “daydream”.
Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.