梦溪笔谈
Traditional form:
夢溪筆談
Pinyin (reading):
Mèng Xī Bǐtán
Definitions:
- Dream Pool Essays by Shen Kuo 沈括 ( Shěn Kuò), book on various fields of knowledge, the first to describe the magnetic needle compass
Characters:
- 梦 - dream
- 溪 - brook, creek, stream
- 笔 - pen, pencil, writing brush; to compose, to write; Hanzi stroke
- 谈 - to talk, to chat; conversation; surname
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