化为乌有 (化為烏有)
huà wéi wū yǒu
Pinyin
Definition
化为乌有 (化為烏有)
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- to go up in smoke
- to vanish
Character Decomposition
Related Words (20)
- 1 to have
- 2 there is
- 3 there are
- 4 to exist
- 5 to be
- 1 haven't
- 2 hasn't
- 3 doesn't exist
- 4 to not have
- 5 to not be
- 1 not having anything at all (idiom); utterly lacking
- 2 without two sticks to rub together
- 1 to have
- 2 to own
- 3 to hold
- 4 to occupy
- 5 to possess
- 6 to account for (a high proportion etc)
- 1 optimization
- 2 to optimize
- 3 to make superior
Idioms (20)
一无所有
- 1 not having anything at all (idiom); utterly lacking
- 2 without two sticks to rub together
三人行,必有我师
- 1 lit. if three walk together, one can be my teacher (idiom, from the Analects of Confucius)
- 2 you have sth to learn from everyone
三生有幸
- 1 the blessing of three lifetimes (idiom)
- 2 (courteous language) it's my good fortune...
上有天堂,下有苏杭
- 1 lit. there is heaven above, and there is 蘇杭|苏杭[Sū Háng] below (idiom)
- 2 fig. the beauty and affluence of Suzhou and Hangzhou is comparable with heaven
上有政策,下有对策
- 1 The higher ups have policies while the lower downs have their own ways of getting around them. (idiom)