灰飞烟灭 huīfēiyānmiè to vanish into thin air Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents 灰飞烟灭 灰飛煙滅 huīfēiyānmiè to vanish into thin air literally scattered ashes and dispersed smoke; describes the complete disappearance of things or the death of people, like vanishing in a puff of smoke Frequency Movie subtitles 1.07 per million appears in 1% of films Written text 1.16 per million Sources Frequency data SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)
灰飞烟灭 灰飛煙滅 huīfēiyānmiè to vanish into thin air literally scattered ashes and dispersed smoke; describes the complete disappearance of things or the death of people, like vanishing in a puff of smoke Frequency Movie subtitles 1.07 per million appears in 1% of films Written text 1.16 per million Sources Frequency data SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)