魚沉雁杳 Save Sign in to save words Simplified: 鱼沉雁杳 yúchényànyǎo ㄩˊ ㄔㄣˊ ㄧㄢˋ ㄧㄠˇ lit. the fish swam away into the depths, the goose vanished in the distance (idiom) fig. to have had no news (of sb who went away) to have lost contact Character by character 魚(yú)surname Yu 沉(chén)submerge 雁(yàn)wild goose 杳(yǎo)dark and quiet A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0