梦溪笔谈 Save Sign in to save words Traditional (Taiwan): 夢溪筆談 mèngxībǐtán ㄇㄥˋ ㄒㄧ ㄅㄧˇ ㄊㄢˊ Dream Pool Essays by Shen Kuo 沈括 shěnkuò, book on various fields of knowledge, the first to describe the magnetic needle compass Character by character 梦(mèng)dream 溪(xī)creek 笔(bǐ)writing brush 谈(tán)surname Tan A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0