夢

ゆめ · yume · JLPT N4 · noun

dream

💤 yume sounds like you-may: in a dream, you may do anything

Say yume as you-meh, close to you may. A dream is the one place where you may fly, you may be anyone, you may break every rule. The kanji 夢 ends in 夕 (evening), the time when dreams begin.

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