烟消云散 — Chinese idiom

Meaning

• to vanish like smoke in thin air; to disappear

Character by character

• 烟yānsmoke, soot; opium; tobacco, cigarettes
• 消xiāonews, rumors; to die out, to melt away, to vanish
• 云yúncloud; to say, to speak
• 散sànto scatter, to disperse, to break up

Idioms sharing a character

• 七窍生烟 qī qiào shēng yān
• 人烟稀少 rén yān xī shǎo
• 人烟稠密 rén yān chóu mì
• 如堕烟雾 rú duò yān wù
• 柳烟花雾 liǔ yān huā wù
• 浩如烟海 hào rú yān hǎi
• 渺无人烟 miǎo wú rén yān
• 灰飞烟灭 huī fēi yān miè
• 乌烟瘴气 wū yān zhàng qì
• 烽烟四起 fēng yān sì qǐ

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