yān xiāo yún sàn

Traditional: 煙消雲散

烟消云散 (yān xiāo yún sàn) is a Chinese word meaning “(idiom) to vanish like smoke in thin air; to disappear”.

Meanings

  1. 1(idiom) to vanish like smoke in thin air; to disappear

Characters in 烟消云散

烟yān · cigarette or pipe tobacco消xiāo · to diminish; to subside云yún · (classical) to say散sǎn · scattered

Related words

消息(piece of) news; information消失to disappear; to fade away取消to cancel; to call off; to revoke; to rescind烟cigarette or pipe tobacco烟tobacco (variant of 煙|烟[yan1])抽烟to smoke (tobacco)抽烟variant of 抽菸|抽烟[chou1 yan1]散scattered散to scatter散variant of 散[san4]消灭to put an end to消防firefighting

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