Read Edit View history 不翼而飞 bùyì'érfēi HSK7 to vanish into thin air Origin Definitions Defs Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents 不翼而飞 不翼而飛 bùyì'érfēi to vanish into thin air Literally meaning "to fly away without wings"; used to describe things suddenly going missing or disappearing without a trace. to spread like wildfire To spread rapidly, such as news, rumors, or ideas. Frequency Movie subtitles 0.830 per million appears in 0% of films Written text 1.57 per million Details HSK 3.0 Level 7 Sources Frequency data SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)
不翼而飞 不翼而飛 bùyì'érfēi to vanish into thin air Literally meaning "to fly away without wings"; used to describe things suddenly going missing or disappearing without a trace. to spread like wildfire To spread rapidly, such as news, rumors, or ideas. Frequency Movie subtitles 0.830 per million appears in 0% of films Written text 1.57 per million Details HSK 3.0 Level 7 Sources Frequency data SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)