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Today’s featured Chinese idiom is 「火滅煙消」, and its meaning and usage are explained below.
The flames went out and the smoke dissipated. It is a metaphor for something disappearing completely without leaving any trace. Also written as “smoke disappears and fire goes out.”
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
huǒ miè yān xiāo
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
fo2 mit6 yin1 siu1
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