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Open the tool →湮没无闻 (yān mò wú wén) is a Chinese idiom (chengyu) meaning “to be buried in oblivion”.
湮没无闻 is pronounced yān mò wú wén in Mandarin Chinese.
Literally, 湮没无闻 means “Sunk and unknown; forgotten and unheard of”. It is used to mean “to be buried in oblivion”.
湮:埋没;无闻:没有知道。名声被埋没,没人知道。