化為烏有 Save Sign in to save words Simplified: 化为乌有 huàwéiwūyǒu ㄏㄨㄚˋ ㄨㄟˊ ㄨ ㄧㄡˇ to go up in smoke to vanish idiom Character by character 化(huà)make into 為(wéi)as (in the capacity of) 烏(wū)surname Wu 有(yǒu)have A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0