杳如黄鹤 — Chinese idiom
杳如黄鹤
yǎo rú huáng hè
Traditional: 杳如黃鶴
Meaning
- to be gone forever
- to disappear without a trace
Character by character
- 杳yǎodark, mysterious, obscure; deep
- 如rúas, as if, like, such as, supposing
- 黄huángyellow; surname
- 鹤hècrane; Grus species (various)
Idioms sharing a character
- 杳无人迹 yǎo wú rén jì
- 雁杳鱼沉 yàn yǎo yú chén
- 鱼沉雁杳 yú chén yàn yǎo
- 一如既往 yī rú jì wǎng
- 一清如水 yī qīng rú shuǐ
- 一贫如洗 yī pín rú xǐ
- 一钱如命 yī qián rú mìng
- 不过如此 bù guò rú cǐ
- 了如指掌 liǎo rú zhǐ zhǎng
- 人如其名 rén rú qí míng
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