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Chinese symbol for “vanish”

幻灭
huàn miè
Traditional: 幻滅
(of dreams, hopes etc) to vanish; to evaporate; (of a person) to become disillusioned; disillusionment

The closest CC-CEDICT match for vanish is 幻灭 (huàn miè), defined as: (of dreams, hopes etc) to vanish; to evaporate; (of a person) to become disillusioned; disillusionment.

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Characters and stroke order

幻 huàn
fantasy, illusion, mirage; imaginary
radical 52 ⼳ · 4 strokes
灭 miè
to extinguish; to wipe out
radical 86 ⽕ · 5 strokes

Traditional forms

Other Chinese words for “vanish”

WordPinyinMeaning
泯mǐn(bound form) to vanish; to die out; to obliterate
遁形dùn xíngto vanish; to hide
收敛 (收斂)shōu liǎnto dwindle; to vanish; to make vanish; to exercise restraint; to curb (one's mirth, arrogance etc)
人间蒸发 (人間蒸發)rén jiān zhēng fāto vanish; to disappear from the face of the earth
绝 (絕)juéto cut short; extinct

Related words

Other words that share a character with 幻灭.

WordPinyinMeaning
幻想huàn xiǎngto fantasize; to imagine; an illusion; a fantasy
梦幻 (夢幻)mèng huàndream; illusion
幻觉 (幻覺)huàn juéillusion; hallucination
科幻kē huànscience fiction; abbr. for 科学幻想 (kē xué huàn xiǎng)
奇幻qí huànfantasy (fiction)
虚幻 (虛幻)xū huànimaginary; illusory
消灭 (消滅)xiāo mièto put an end to; to annihilate
毁灭 (毀滅)huǐ mièto perish; to ruin

See also: Japanese symbol for “vanish”.

Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.