杳渺

yǎomiǎo
adjective

Meanings

  1. 1 dimly discernible
  2. 2 vast and indistinct
  3. 3 distant and faint

Examples

Yuǎn shān yǎomiǎo, wàng zhī rú yān.
The distant mountains are faint and indistinct, looking like wisps of smoke.
Tā de shēnyǐng jiànjiàn yǎomiǎo zài rén hǎi zhōng.
His figure gradually faded into the indistinct sea of people.

Tips

register
Literary / poetic. (yǎo, dim, far away) carries (sun) under (tree) — sun setting beyond trees, fading from view. Pairs with (miǎo, vast, tiny in the distance, with water radical) for a 'fading-into-distance' compound.

Stroke Order

yǎo
miǎo