Read Edit View history 灰飞烟灭 huīfēiyānmiè to vanish into thin air Origin Definitions Defs 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)