杳
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dark and quiet; disappear
- Strokes
- 8
- Radical
- 木 +4
- Structure
- Top–bottom 上下
- Traditional
- 杳
- Common rank
- #2,827
- Unicode
- U+6773
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Formation & memory
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Words with 杳
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| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 杳无音信 | to have no news whatever | |
| 杳无人烟 | see 杳無人跡|杳无人迹[yao3 wu2 ren2 ji4] | |
| 杳无人迹 | (idiom) without trace of human presence; uninhabited; deserted | |
| 杳无消息 | see 杳無音信|杳无音信[yao3 wu2 yin1 xin4] | |
| 杳如黄鹤 | to be gone forever (idiom); to disappear without a trace | |
| 雁杳鱼沉 | without news from sb (idiom) | |
| 鱼沉雁杳 | lit. the fish swam away into the depths, the goose vanished in the distance (idiom); fig. … | |
| 杳然 | quiet, silent, and lonely; far and indistinct; gone without a trace | |
| 杳冥 | dim and dusky; far and indistinct | |
| 杳茫 | distant and out of sight | |
| 杳渺 | dimly discernible | |
| 杳杳 | deep and somber; see also 窈窈[yao3 yao3] | |
| 杳霭 | far and deep | |
| 杳眇 | variant of 杳渺[yao3 miao3] |