DICTIONARY · CC-CEDICT

仲夏夜之夢

简仲夏夜之梦 · 繁仲夏夜之夢

Mandarin · pinyin Zhòng xià yè zhī mèng

Midsummer night's dream, comedy by William Shakespeare 莎士比亞 Shā shì bǐ yà

Full entryShow on map

Characters in this entry

仲: zhòng · middle brother; go between, mediator; surname
夏: xià · summer; great, grand, big
夜: yè · night, dark; in night; by night
之: zhī · marks preceding phrase as modifier of following phrase; it, him her, them; go to
夢: Look up this written character
梦: mèng · dream; visionary; wishful

Written characters and their own readings; the entry’s pronunciation is shown above.

Explore the spelling

Mandarin tones

4–4–4–1–4 · Zhong4 xia4 ye4 zhi1 meng4

Compare attested words with these syllables ↗

Dictionary tones. Connected speech can change their realization.

Connected dictionary

5character links1source reference

Explore word families ↗Compare pronunciations ↗Open character structure ↗

Counts describe dictionary records, not word frequency or semantic similarity. Source identities stay separate.

Read this spelling in Classical texts

Follow a written form into the eight pinned witnesses: Analects, Mencius, Laozi, Zhuangzi, Xunzi, Han Feizi, Sunzi and the Mao Shijing. A match is a place to investigate; it does not prove that a modern dictionary sense fits the passage.

仲夏夜之夢 · find source passages ↗ · 仲夏夜之梦 · find source passages ↗

Explore Classical grammar ↗

Compare dictionary sources Rime · Wiktionary

Rime Cantonese 粵拼

zung6 haa6 je6 zi1 mung6

Cantonese word readings for 仲夏夜之夢. This lexicon supplies readings, not definitions.

CanCLID contributors · CC BY 4.0 · source & license · Data pack

Wiktionary English definitions · Chinese section

Independent source senses for this spelling, with usage labels retained. Not matched to the pronunciation above.

name

A Midsummer Night's Dream by Shakespeare

Source page · dump 2026-09-02 · Contributors & history

Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0 · source & license · Data pack