过眼云烟

Traditional form:

過眼雲煙

Pinyin (reading):

guòyǎnyúnyān

Definitions:

• ephemeral (idiom)

Characters:

• 过 - pass; to go across, to pass through
• 眼 - eyelet, hole, opening
• 云 - cloud; to say, to speak
• 烟 - smoke, soot; opium; tobacco, cigarettes

Traditional characters:

• 過 - pass; to go across, to pass through
• 眼 - eyelet, hole, opening
• 雲 - cloud; to say, to speak
• 煙 - smoke, soot; opium; tobacco, cigarettes