灰飞烟灭

灰
灰
飞
飛
烟
煙
灭
滅
lit. scattered ashes and dispersed smoke (idiom) / fig. to be annihilated / to vanish in a puff of smoke

Characters and words in 灰飞烟灭

灰
hui̅ = hu + ei1
ash / dust / lime / gray / discouraged; dejected
灰 = 𠂇 + 火 : Helga Horse (hu) wants to cut out a piece of fire (火) in front of the Eiffel Tower (ei1) using a pair of scissors (𠂇), but every time she cuts she just gets a little bit of gray ashes (灰).
飞
飛
fe̅i = f + ei1
to fly
Looks like a hummingbird. Frankenstein's monster is being pecked by a hummingbird in front of the Eiffel Tower.
飛 = 𠃧 + 升 : looks like a rook holding a branch and a stick in its beak with its baby : the mother rook to its baby: “ if yu wanna fly, yu need to learn to jump first then I’ll give yu a TOW BOOST, or maybe I’m gonna gallop fast as a TOUR BUS, skip over obstacles then hurl yu from the top of a HILL, then yu’ll be able to help me pick branches and turn them into sticks to build yur nest.
烟
煙
ya̅n = y + an1
cigarette or pipe tobacco / CL:根[gen1] / smoke / mist / vapour / CL:縷|缕[lü3] / tobacco plant / (of the eyes) to be irritated by smoke
烟 = 因 + 火 : Maud Younger (y) is giving René Descartes (因) fire (火) for his tobacco (烟) pipe in front of the anthill (an1).
灭
滅
miè = mi + e4
to extinguish or put out / to go out (of a fire etc) / to exterminate or wipe out / to drown
灭 = 一 + 火 : In the elevator's bathroom (e4) Marilyn Monroe (mi) was playing the flute (一) so hot that it is on fire (火) now! Luckily there's a fire extinguisher so that she can put it out (灭).

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