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Progress in Chinese starts with characters, then words, finally idioms. Here’s a free look at 「杳無消息」 and its explanation.

This feature highlights the idiom 「杳無消息」, with its meaning and examples shown below.

杳: without a trace. There is no news at all.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

yǎo wú xiāo xī

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

miu5 mou4 siu1 sik1

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