超现实

超現實
chāoxiànshí
adjective #32,661

Meanings

  1. 1 surreal
  2. 2 surrealistic
  3. 3 beyond reality

Examples

Zhè bù diànyǐng yǒu yī zhǒng chāoxiànshí de gǎnjué.
This film has a surreal feeling.
Dálì shì chāoxiànshí zhǔyì de dàibiǎo huàjiā.
Dalí is a representative painter of Surrealism.

Tips

culture
超现实主义 (chāoxiànshí zhǔyì) is the standard Chinese for 'Surrealism' — the early 20th-century art movement led by André Breton, with painters like Salvador Dalí (达利) and René Magritte (格利). 超现实 alone is the adjective: 'surreal,' applied to anything dreamlike or impossibly strange.
memory
(beyond/exceed) + 现实 (reality) = 'beyond reality.' The same prefix builds 超人 (superman), 能力 (superpower), 超市 (supermarket — 'super-market').

Stroke Order

chāo
xiàn
shí