荡然无存

蕩然無存

dàngrán-wúcún

idiom #27,166

Meanings

HSK 6

他曾经的骄傲荡然无存。

Tā céngjīng de jiāo'ào dàngrán-wúcún.

His former pride vanished without a trace.

HSK 7-9

战火过后，那座古城荡然无存。

Zhànhuǒ guòhòu, nà zuò gǔchéng dàngrán-wúcún.

After the war, the ancient city was completely obliterated.

memory

荡 suggests something being swept or washed away. Picture a flood wiping a landscape clean - nothing left, 无存 (nothing remains).

荡 dàng

然 rán

无 wú

存 cún