终成泡影 — Chinese idiom
终成泡影
zhōng chéng pào yǐng
Traditional: 終成泡影
Meaning
- to come to nothing
Character by character
- 终zhōngend; finally, in the end
- 成chéngto accomplish; to become; to complete, to finish;
- 泡pàobubble, blister; swollen, puffed up
- 影yǐngshadow; image, reflection; photograph
Idioms sharing a character
- 不知所终 bù zhī suǒ zhōng
- 善始善终 shàn shǐ shàn zhōng
- 始终如一 shǐ zhōng rú yī
- 情定终身 qíng dìng zhōng shēn
- 抱恨终天 bào hèn zhōng tiān
- 曲终奏雅 qǔ zhōng zòu yǎ
- 有始有终 yǒu shǐ yǒu zhōng
- 有始无终 yǒu shǐ wú zhōng
- 为德不终 wéi dé bù zhōng
- 无疾而终 wú jí ér zhōng
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