Chinese symbol for “nightmare”
噩梦
è mèng
Traditional: 噩夢
nightmare
The closest CC-CEDICT match for nightmare is 噩梦 (è mèng), defined as: nightmare.
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Other Chinese words for “nightmare”
Related words
Other words that share a character with 噩梦.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 噩耗 | è hào | news of sb's death; sad news |
| 浑浑噩噩 (渾渾噩噩) | hún hún è è | (idiom) muddleheaded |
| 噩运 (噩運) | è yùn | variant of 厄运 (è yùn) |
| 梦想 (夢想) | mèng xiǎng | (fig.) to dream of; dream |
| 做梦 (做夢) | zuò mèng | to dream; to have a dream; (fig.) to indulge in wishful thinking |
| 梦见 (夢見) | mèng jiàn | to dream about (sth or sb); to see in a dream |
| 梦幻 (夢幻) | mèng huàn | dream; illusion |
| 恶梦 (惡夢) | è mèng | nightmare |
See also: Japanese symbol for “nightmare”.
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.